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

Amid the vast Syrian desert, southwest of the city of Raqqa, rise the imposing ruins of Resafa Castle, also known as ...

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 ...

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

Politicians have been sneaking into religious art for centuries. The Byzantine emperor Justinian had himself depicted in a ...

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 ...

Abstract: Federated learning empowers privacy-preserving, multi-party secure model training without the necessity of sharing raw data. In recent years, knowledge distillation has emerged as a ...

Qalaat Semaan, also known as the Church of St. Simeon Stylites, stands in the Aleppo countryside, northwestern Syria, as one ...

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 ...

Digenes Akritas is an epic poem from the Byzantine Empire. It follows the exploits of the titular hero in the Byzantine borderlands.

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

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