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

Women played diverse and influential roles in the Byzantine Empire that extended far beyond the domestic affairs of each family.

The Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the Roman ... from the city officially named New Rome but commonly called Constantinople (“Constantine’s city”) and founded originally as Byzantion ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...

while Constantinople - modern-day Istanbul - was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire. Rome - and the Western Roman Empire - fell in 476 AD. The 'eternal ...

The Triumph of Orthodoxy did not secure the survival of the Byzantine Empire. In 1453 the city fell to the Turks, Constantinople became the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and the great cathedral ...

During the first few centuries C.E., Christianity slowly spread through the Roman Empire ... and a new Byzantine capital was founded in his name: Constantinople, which heralded the beginning ...

Their relationship with other heretics – Why did they avoid contact with others – Their role in the betrayal of Amorium's ...

A gold coin unearthed at the site of a medieval fortress in Bulgaria indicates the wealth of the people who lived there ...

In 1453, the Byzantine capital of Constantinople is surrounded by Ottoman Turks. The city is but a shadow of its former glory due to the empire's ever receding coffers, while the Ottoman Empire ...