The Byzantine Empire was one of the first societies to offer its citizens some form of what we now call universal healthcare.

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 incomparable and irrepressible Edward N. Luttwak has a short article in the November/December issue of Foreign Policy called “Take Me Back to Constantinople: How Byzantium, not Rome, can help ...

> Time in power: 582-602 The Byzantine emperor Maurice ruled in the sixth and early seventh century. He conducted various military campaigns against Persians, Slavs, Avars, and Lombards during a reign ...

The Byzantine Empire, also called Byzantium, was the eastern half of the Roman Empire that continued on after the western half of the empire collapsed. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...