At the height of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople was the jewel of the Christian world, a city of breathtaking palaces, sprawling forums, and magnificent churches like Hagia Sophia. Its walls had ...

The Greeks of Cappadocia, in central-eastern Anatolia, created their own flourishing culture in ancient times that thrived in the region for millennia. However, the Great Catastrophe of Smyrna and ...

The Code of Justinian, a collection of laws compiled by Byzantine Emperor Justinian, is widely regarded as the foundation of Western law.

The Battle of Tricamarum (533 AD) led to the collapse of the Vandal Kingdom. It pitted the Byzantine Empire, under its able general Belisarius, against the illustrious Vandal Kingdom, under King ...

The US researchers have discovered the first Mediterranean mass grave of the world’s first proven pandemic, the plague of Justinian , that killed millions of people in the Byzantine ...

We take a look at the unexpected places the Vikings reached, and what remnants of their visits you can still see today.

Researchers believe this discovery provides a unique and important opportunity to understand the impact of one of the world's ...

Turkey has been in the news in recent weeks for a role it knows well: peacemaker. As tensions simmer between the United States and Iran, Turkey has attempted to bring U.S. and Iranian officials to the ...

Violence is not a Jewish invention, nor is it unique to the Middle East. War is a constant of human history, regardless of ...

A US-led research team has verified the first Mediterranean mass grave of the world’s earliest recorded pandemic, providing stark new details about the plague of Justinian that killed millions of ...

A new genetic study has revealed that the people of Deep Mani, who inhabit one of the remotest regions of mainland Greece, ...

How far back does the rich history of Italian olives and oil stretch? My new research, published in the American Journal of Archaeology, synthesizing and reevaluating existing archaeological evidence, ...