The amazing relationship between Byzantine Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora is one of the most captivating stories of ...

The Empress. Meet Catherine the Great in this latest Civilization 7 trailer for the upcoming turn-based strategy game. Sid ...

For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress - who reigned from 1762 ...

One of the most amazing accomplishments of Byzantine monasteries was the miraculous preservation of ancient Greek treasures ...

The identification of Christian holy sites gained increased importance during the reign of Constantine the Great in the Roman Empire. This interest persisted ... the church was expanded in the 6th ...

Denis Diderot, at Catherine the Great’s insistent invitation ... Diderot was so obsessed with the need to defeat the Ottoman Empire that he ignored Catherine’s destruction, well noted by French ...

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 ...

Helen Gittos, a professor of medieval history at Oxford University, in the U.K., has developed a new theory regarding the ...

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also referred to as the Byzantine Empire), in which ...

But a leading Anglo-Saxon expert has now suggested it might have been the grave of British soldiers who fought for the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century AD. The site was unearthed in the late ...

Jan. 6 (UPI) --At least 10 buildings and multiple artifacts from the 5th or 6th century have been uncovered in southern Israel in what authorities say is an ancient Byzantine monastery thousands ...

Seth Rogen and Catherine O’Hara kicked off awards season ... corporate overlords in the ever-elusive pursuit of making great films,” per the synopsis. “As someone who eats, sleeps, and ...