The Eastern Roman Empire did not fall overnight. For centuries it faced relentless waves of migration — Lombards in Italy, ...

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

An empire already stretched by war suddenly faced a disaster it could not control. The Justinian Plague spread rapidly across the Eastern Roman Empire killing millions and weakening the economy.

For a long time, we’ve been sold the idea that Genghis Khan, the 13th-century founder of the Mongol Empire, was so phenomenally prolific that one in 200 men alive today carries his exact Y chromosome.

Archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of ancient Roman marching camps in Saxony-Anhalt — a first for one of Eastern ...

Classicist Curtis Dozier’s The White Pedestal examines how the prestige of Greece and Rome can legitimize modern racism—and ...

A Norwegian archaeologist believes that the Norwegians were on their way to the Roman Empire as mercenaries around the year ...

A mysterious inscription sheds light on the issue of whether the Great Mosque of Homs in Syria was constructed over the ...

This ancient queen of Palmyra conquered Egypt, captured Roman provinces, and nearly transformed her realm into an empire ...

Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being ...

Nearly 20 years in the making, the sweeping sword and sandals epic drama puts black heroes at the center of their own legend. This is a sweeping, mythic, sword and sandals epic where Black heroes ...