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 ...

Believed to be more than 1,500 years old from the Byzantine Empire, the ruins were found in Maarat al-Numan in Idlib province, located on the route between the cities of Aleppo and Damascus.

Commonly known as the Byzantine Empire, it was a syncretic melding of Greek and Roman civilisations under the new creed of Christianity. The ancient Greek city of Byzantium, on the Bosporus in ...

Our Reviewer: Mike Markowitz is an historian and wargame designer. He writes a monthly column for CoinWeek.Com and is a member of the ADBC (Association of Dedicated Byzantine Collectors). His previous ...

But it is time to lay his mistaken notions of the Byzantine Empire, decadent and dying, to rest. Zachary Karabell writes from Harvard's Center for International Affairs.

The Byzantine Iconoclasm (726–843) led to the destruction of its sacred images, while the Fourth Crusade (1204) saw Latin Crusaders plunder its treasures, turning it into a Catholic cathedral until ...

Conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204. Credit: David Aubert, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain The Byzantine Empire, the Roman Empire’s continuation in the East, faced countless, ...

The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was one of the most powerful and enduring civilisations in world history. It began in AD 330 when the Roman Emperor Constantine I declared ...

The Byzantine Empire, 1025-1204 : a political history by Angold, Michael Publication date 1997 Topics Civilization, Medieval, Byzantine Empire -- History -- 1025-1081, Byzantine Empire -- History -- ...