Anglo-Saxons joined the Byzantine Varangian Guard after the 1066 Norman Conquest, shaping the Byzantine Empire.

The mystery of Greek fire continues to baffle historians millennia after its creation. Not only did the 7th-century weapon ...

Byzantine emperors therefore lived in fear of the people and did whatever they could to keep the people happy, presenting themselves as civil servants working tirelessly for the public’s benefit.

What was the vitriolic report of Liutprand of Cremona, whose insults towards the Byzantines created a caricature of the ...

A discussion of the Byzantium Empire, the longest lasting empire in the western world which began in 330 A.D. and collapsed 1,123 years later in 1453. The Collapse of the Byzantine Empire, 1453 ...

Ancient Trash Mounds From Byzantine Empire Reveal How Disease and Climate Change Ravaged Ancient Civilization. ... By its end in 590, it had wiped out 100 million people.

The Byzantine Nation ‘Of that Byzantine Empire the universal verdict of history is that it constitutes, without a single exception, the most thoroughly base and despicable form that civilization has ...