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 ...

Women played diverse and influential roles in the Byzantine Empire that extended far beyond the domestic affairs of each family.

It began with the forging of the great Rings. 25 years ago, Peter Jackson launched the greatest cinematic fantasy saga of all time – assembling a fellowship of actors, crew members, and visionaries to ...

Eleven days after the Trump administration suspended its $5 billion wind power project off Long Island, Empire Offshore Wind LLC has filed a lawsuit to allow its construction to continue. Equinor said ...

John Vink, the Silicon Valley smokehouse savior, is at it again. The engineer-turned-entrepreneur has revived the shuttered Armadillo Willy’s in the Blossom Hill area of South San Jose. Both this and ...

During the past century, the tiny, inbred academic field of Byzantine Studies was dominated by professors of British, French, or Slavic heritage. More recently, a generation of young scholars with ...

Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP) took power on November 3 promising to cure the national habit of borrowing billions and pouring it down black holes -- a habit whose legacy has been prices ...

A new high resolution digital dataset and map—named Itiner-e—of roads throughout the Roman Empire around the year 150 CE is presented in research published in Scientific Data. The findings increase ...

#shorts #shortsfeed #history #geography #facts #map #mapper #world This short tells a story about what would happen if Byzantine Empire came back today? With Greece wanting to reunite the Byzantine ...

When the team behind Full Court Press renovated the former Fong’s location in downtown Des Moines after flood damage, they discovered an interesting historic artifact. Under the flooring, the original ...

View post: Netflix’s New $7 Billion Deal - Huge Movies Coming Exclusively to Netflix in a Game-Changing Agreement Though excavations have been taking place at the site for nearly 30 years, this most ...

Though excavations have been taking place at the site for nearly 30 years, this most recent discovery was initially made by metal detectorist Eddie Lipsman. "The device went crazy. I couldn't believe ...