What was the vitriolic report of Liutprand of Cremona, whose insults towards the Byzantines created a caricature of the ...

In 1204, crusaders from Western Europe stormed Constantinople, looting one of the richest cities of the medieval world. This documentary explores whether the Fourth Crusade was truly the decisive ...

One of only three surviving Byzantine crowns, it depicts a man and two sisters who jointly ruled the empire in the 11th century.

A discussion of the Byzantium Empire, the longest lasting empire in the western world which began in 330 A.D. and collapsed 1,123 years later in 1453. The Collapse of the Byzantine Empire, 1453 ...

Archaeologists recently discovered that the 6th-century Byzantine Bromeswell bucket found at Sutton Hoo was used to hold cremated remains. The find sheds light on Anglo-Saxon burial practices.

The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453, when Constantinople ... but the sack and destruction by the members of the Fourth Crusade led by the Venetians in 1204. The city was burned, ...

The Byzantine Empire, which began in the 4th century AD, was a continuation of the Roman empire with its capital in Constantinople — today’s Istanbul — and Christianity as its official religion.

In Greek Orthodox Christianity, which was the official religion of the Byzantine Empire that lasted from 312 to 1453 A.D., some factions were against sacred images and some in favor of them.

The finding was made during an excavation at the Harbor of Eleutherios, one of the ports of ancient Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Archaeologists discovered a pair of 1,500 ...

When the Ottomans, led by Sultan Mehmed II, captured Constantinople on May 29, 1453, bringing an end to the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantine Empire, they virtually controlled all the territories that ...