Dame Averil Cameron, who has died aged 86, was Professor of Byzantine History at Oxford, and a leading voice in a generation ...

Crimea was a key site of conflict between the Byzantine Empire and the early Russian people, the Rus', in the Middle Ages.

During the 15th and 16th centuries, a wave of Greek Byzantine scholars arrived in Italy where they contributed tremendously to the Renaissance ...

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 in ...

Around the year 600 AD, Egypt and North Africa were among the most important provinces of the Byzantine Empire. Egypt ...

The Byzantine Empire, often overshadowed by its predecessor, the Roman Empire, and its successor, the Ottoman Empire, was a remarkable civilization that spanned over a millennium. Its contributions to ...

(The Conversation) — Fierce debates about visual depictions of the sacred have existed for centuries. An art historian explains the controversies in the Byzantine Empire over images of Christ. (The ...

In November, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opened Africa & Byzantium, its first Byzantine-focused exhibition in nearly 20 years. According to the museum’s press release, the show promises ...

Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. viii, 1152. Illus., maps, appends, gloss., notes, biblio., index. $45.00. ISBN: 0197549322 The Empire that ...

A metal detectorist has discovered a rare Byzantine coin in the mountains of Norway’s Vestre Slidre municipality, more than a millennium after it was created and over 1,600 miles away from its place ...

The Byzantine Empire is often overlooked in history. But for over a thousand years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, it remained one of the most advanced civilizations in the world. This ...