Arms technology is one of the driving forces behind warfare. While there was a period where most of humanity was ...
Many people mistakenly think that the Eastern Roman Empire became the Byzantine Empire, but the truth is much more complex. In this video, we explain how the term "Byzantine" was actually coined ...
The phrase a plague is upon us must have echoed frequently in ancient Jordan, where a mysterious affliction cut down ...
May 29, 1453, is one of those landmark historical dates. On that day the fall of Constantinople occurred —and with it that of ...
Researchers from University of South Florida confirmed the first genetically and archaeologically verified plague mass grave ...
The so called Byzantine Empire never called itself Byzantine. Long after the fall of Rome in the West its people still believed they were Romans heirs of Caesar and Augustus. This video shows how war ...
Historically, Theodoro (also known as Gothia) is often described as one of the final “rump states” of the Eastern Roman world, with its capital at Mangup (Doros/Theodoro) and a mixed population that ...
Belisarius is the much underrated military commander of the Byzantine Empire who helped reclaim huge swathes of the Roman ...