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

Kings and Generals brings to life some of the most unusual animals in history, starting with Porphyrios - the whale that harassed the Byzantine Empire during Justinian’s reign. This video explores how ...

Saint Gregory the Illuminator is depicted in a ancient Byzantine mosaic in Pammakaristos Church, Istanbul, Turkey. The church was built between the 11th and 12th centuries. A new study has ...

The Byzantine Empire, which began in the 4th century AD, was a continuation of the Roman empire with its capital in Constantinople – today's Istanbul – and Christianity as its official religion.

Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, the Byzantine Emperor who preferred books and who offered us a detailed account of Byzantine ...

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 ...

WESTFIELD — “The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire” will be the topic of Hassan (Sam) Mahmoud at the First Wednesday Luncheon of the Westfield Historical Society at noon, Wednesday ...

Although the scientists recovered a bounty of ceramic sherds from the early and middle Byzantine periods, roughly 350 to 550 A.D., they found significantly fewer sherds from later periods.

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense, says ...

The Byzantine Empire, which dates to the 4th century, was a continuation of the vast Roman Empire with its capital in Constantinople — now Istanbul — with Christianity as its state religion. 3.

In Greek Orthodox Christianity, which was the official religion of the Byzantine Empire that lasted from 312 to 1453 A.D., some factions were against sacred images and some in favor of them.