The Byzantine Empire is known for many things, however, not many people know the unusual life journeys of some of its emperors, like Basil I.

During the 15th and 16th centuries, a wave of Greek Byzantine scholars arrived in Italy where they contributed tremendously ...

The Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the Roman Empire ... during which emperors ruled as civilians from the city officially named New Rome but commonly called Constantinople (“Constantine ...

The Byzantine Emperor Justinian I came close to uniting the former Roman Empire less than a century after its fall. However, ...

Silk production and trade became an important part of the Byzantine economy from the 6th century on. The 4th and early 6th centuries were a time of active long distance trade. During the year 306 CE, ...

On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years ...

The city was burned, the inhabitants killed or ... But it is time to lay his mistaken notions of the Byzantine Empire, decadent and dying, to rest.