The Byzantine Greeks are a nation that is very often misunderstood for a number of historical and political reasons.

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Do empires collapse due to natural disasters or diseases? A question that has long intrigued, but the answers are not always where we expect them. A recent study challenges conventional ideas about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Turns out that many men think about the Roman Empire a lot. But why? (Yahoo News/Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images) How often do you ...

AMMAN — The Roman Empire in the Middle East recruited so-called “dromedarii”, who were camel-riding soldiers in the desert provinces of the empire to replace classical cavalry. In this harsh arid ...

Some time ago we dedicated an article to the frumentarii and agentes in rebus, who constituted what we might consider the Roman Empire’s secret services, although in reality that body performed more ...

According to a recent study, the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA), a climate crisis in the 6th century lasting 200 to 300 years, may have contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire, setting the ...

12:49, Sun, Nov 17, 2024 Updated: 12:52, Sun, Nov 17, 2024 Ancient shipwrecks have given scientists fresh insights into why the final remnants of the Roman Empire collapsed - nearly 1,000 years after ...

The eastern Roman empire was founded by Constantine the Great on May 11, A.D. 330. The empire fell on May 29, 1453, when the army of the Ottoman sultan Mehmet II breached the walls of Constantinople.