Built as Byzantium, and then renamed Constantinople, Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.

A new archaeometric study of 66 marble artifacts from the early Byzantine villages of Porphyreon and Chhim in Lebanon reveals ...

A new archaeometric study has identified the origins of marble objects from the early Byzantine villages of Porphyreon and ...

Excavation in Israel revealed a Byzantine monastery and farmhouse, highlighting the spiritual and practical lives of desert ...

None of his recent films are as strange and bewildering as “The Empire,” a science-fiction epic, where the action is split between a galactic void and the Opal coast in Northern France. After the ...

SINGAPORE: Parts of a Bloomberg article are false, baseless, and calculated to defame, Manpower Minister Tan See Leng and Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam said in court documents ...

Whether you like to fake a year-round tan, apply a layer before heading on holiday or are just a summertime addict, gradual tan deserves a place in every fake tanner’s arsenal. From fast-drying ...

As has become tradition, we here at Team Empire were with you through the wee small hours of the morning for every single award, every single winner, every single live performance, and every ...

Barack Obama visits a SpaceX hangar with Elon Musk at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, US, April 15, 2010. ALEX BRANDON / ASSOCIATED PRESS Elon Musk is trying to slash US federal spending, but ...

Father Bruce Riebe is the first full-time priest for the congregation of St. Andrew of Crete Byzantine Catholic Outreach in Muscatine and the Outreach in Des Moines. He shows a visitor the ornate ...