Have you ever thought that politics feels like a rollercoaster, with machinations and sharp ups and downs similar to those of Byzantium?

Byzantine architecture has had a profound influence across the world, including in the Balkans, Middle East, and North ...

Many factors contributed to the survival of the Byzantine Empire. It had a good infrastructure system that funneled agricultural supplies, and it had a good infrastructure system that funneled these ...

In this episode of Kings and Generals' historical animated series, we examine the cultural and intellectual legacy of the ...

Then I entered an entirely new and exotic realm — the eastern Roman Empire, a dominion that survived the fall of Rome in 476 by almost a thousand years. The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453 ...

Furthermore, contrary to many comparable short histories of the Empire, I gave special emphasis to the economic, social, and cultural changes within Byzantium."… (p. xiii), Intended mainly as a ...

Mehmed, who was just 21 when he conquered Istanbul, put the Ottoman Empire on the path of great transformation. Sultan Mehmed II was just 21 years old when he defeated the Byzantine Empire ...