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 ...

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 ...

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

Abstract: The increasing popularity of the federated learning (FL) framework due to its success in a wide range of collaborative learning tasks also induces certain security concerns. Among many ...

Update 02. Dec 2015: Download is now available! see the description for link. This is the theme for "The Block Cave", a ...

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 ...

To find a single coin in an archaeological excavation is not especially unusual, to find a hoard of coins is uncommon, and to find a hoard of gold coins is exceptionally rare. Thus, when archaeologist ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Thus will we all be, once Death carries us away!” That is how the parvenu tycoon Trimalchio greets the pièce ...

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 ...