The Byzantines maintained relations with China. Credit: Carole Raddato, Flickr CC-BY-SA 2.0 The Byzantine Empire, which was known at the time as the Eastern Roman Empire, maintained a relatively ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a fascinating relic of ancient administrative practices during excavations at Abel Beth Maacah, ...

Belisarius mosaic. Credit: Petar Milošević. CC BY-4.0/Wikimedia Commons/Petar Milosevic Belisarius is the much underrated military commander of the Byzantine Empire who led the armies of Justinian I ...

The famous helmet is among the Anglo-Saxon artifacts that indicate an eastern link with the Byzantine Empire. When you purchase ... may not look very Roman at first glance, but it has articulated ...

Humans have polluted the sea with lead for far longer than we realised, study shows - Scientists say signs of heavy metal pollution date all the way back to Ancient Greece ...

The Byzantine Empire, which constituted the eastern half of the Roman Empire, outlasted the western half by a thousand years before it finally fell to the Ottoman Turks onslaughts in 1453.

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also referred to as the Byzantine Empire), in which millions ...

But, despite this, there are still many in academia who claim that changes to the climate and the outbreak of plague were catastrophic for the eastern Roman Empire ... used to map the general ...

During the first few centuries C.E., Christianity slowly spread through the Roman Empire. In the 300s, the emperor Constantine I converted to Christianity, and a new Byzantine capital was founded ...

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Here’s What You Need to Remember: While there have been dozens of important, interesting battles over the past five thousand years of recorded warfare, here are five that changed history forever, ...