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

The Hagia Sophia is at the centre of Turkey's Byzantine, Ottoman and secular history. How did the sixth-century cathedral ...

The Orthodox and Catholic Churches have a long history that led to a series of divisions, also known as schisms.

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It is chanted in all Orthodox Churches throughout the world during the five Fridays in Great Lent and constitutes a very ...

This is not something that a Byzantine Emperor would want to be remembered for, but that’s the legacy of the man who ruled the Eastern Roman Empire from 842 to 867 AD. His controversial reign still ...

Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised ...

The sun dips low over the rugged cliffs of Meteora, casting golden hues across monasteries perched impossibly atop stone ...

Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is ...

VIENNA -- As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an ...