The events that led to the collapse of the Byzantine Empire are commonly referred to as “the Islamic conquests.” However, this raises several questions: Were these conquerors truly Muslims?

Archaeologists believed they had unearthed the remains of a Byzantine monk buried beneath an ancient monastery in Jerusalem. But years later, new scientific evidence has turned that theory upside ...

The Maestà, or Maestà of Duccio, is an altarpiece composed of many individual paintings commissioned by the city of Siena in Tuscany in 1308 from the artist Duccio di Buoninsegna. Credit: Duccio di ...

The Byzantine medicine was heavily influenced by Christian values. credit: Wellcome Images/ wikimedia commons CC-BY-4.0 The Byzantine Empire is mostly known for its achievements in art and ...

How the bold, hopeful visions of self-determination in Britain’s eastern colonies curdled into a more militant nationalism by the end of the second world war.

Population surveillance. The carrying of identification while traveling. Add to that the public presence of diverse religions ...

St. Gregory Palamas lived in Greece in the 14th century. The Byzantine Emperor himself helped raise and educate St. Gregory, but the saint left the court to become a humble ...

Sandokan exterminated them in his kingdom, and Indiana Jones faced their most sinister version; Phileas Fogg crossed their domains during his trip around the world, and the Beatles were chased by them ...

A new archaeometric study has identified the origins of marble objects from the early Byzantine villages of Porphyreon and Chhim in present-day Lebanon. Researchers conducted analyses on 66 ...

The group, led by former al Qaeda militant Ahmad al-Sharaa, promised political equality and representation to the various sects of Syria’s diverse ethnic and religious populations.