The Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the Roman Empire and even of the Roman Republic. Its political ideology was fundamentally secular and grounded in the ancient Roman republican belief ...

Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.

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 ...

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.