A pair of 1,500-year-old lady's sandals with a message in Greek was discovered during a dig in Constantinople, today's ...

An art historian explains the controversies in the Byzantine Empire over images of Christ. (The Conversation) — An adjunct lecturer at Hamline University recently lost her job for showing an ...

A team of archaeologists, volunteers and conservators unearthed additional fragments of a Byzantine bucket at Sutton ... from a part of the Byzantine Empire called Antioch, located in modern ...

Then I entered an entirely new and exotic realm — the eastern Roman Empire, a dominion that survived the fall of Rome in 476 by almost a thousand years. The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453 ...

Some suggested one or more of the graves could be the remains of a Byzantine king. The burial sites have been dated to approximately 575 AD, a time when the Roman Empire had already withdrawn from ...

A portrait of the final Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palailogos, has been discovered by archaeologists in Greece. The portrait was found on a mid-15th century fresco uncovered at a monastery ...