These are the things that make a Soulsborne game a Soulsborne, and praise the sun for it! If you’ve slogged your way through ...

Constantinople fell, and Emperor Constantine XI’s sacrifice marked the end of an era and a legacy of faith and defiance.

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

The story of this ancient international heist reveals much about the ancient economies of both ancient Rome and China.

Archaeologists found missing pieces of a sixth century vessel from the famed Sutton Hoo site, as well as the cremated human remains and other objects it once held.

as they became the new standard references for centuries to come and were the sources of knowledge that thousands of physicians across the Byzantine Empire used to treat their patients. For example, ...

we mentioned the Akritai (or Akritoi), a group of light infantry soldiers who guarded the eastern frontiers of the Byzantine Empire and were recruited from the peasants of the border provinces. Today, ...

The Byzantine Empire, which constituted the eastern half of the Roman Empire, outlasted the western half by a thousand years before it finally fell to the Ottoman Turks onslaughts in 1453.

A Byzantine monastery with a colorful mosaic ... It comes from a passage in the Bible’s book of Deuteronomy that describes blessings that will be granted those who obey God’s commands.

An exceptional discovery has brought to light the only known contemporary representation of the last emperor of the Byzantine Empire, Constantine XI Palaiologos. This valuable work was uncovered ...

as well as evidence of habitation from the fourth to sixth centuries A.D., when the area was part of the Byzantine Empire. During a recent expedition, archaeologists excavated a medieval dwelling ...

The Byzantine Empire expanded under Justinian I in the sixth century ... Kaleena Fraga has also had her work featured in The Washington Post and Gastro Obscura, and she published a book on the Seattle ...