The Boukoleon Palace (also spelled Bucoleon), currently being restored, was one of the most historically significant Byzantine palaces in Constantinople (modern Istanbul), serving as a crucial part of ...

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense, says ...

Among the Scandinavian archaeological heritage are the so-called runestones, stelae whose epigraphic content is written -obviously- in runes, with a quite broad chronology, from the 4th century to the ...

Opportunism, ambition, intrigues - these were aspects that were always present at the courts of great empires. Rulers rose to power following these rules of the game, and they were often the reasons ...

Try a custard-soft Byzantine cheesecake linking your modern kitchen to Byzantium and the medieval Mediterranean—with just ...

The gold pectoral is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. A total of 14 gold coins and two ...

The period from the late fourth to the sixth century C.E. saw the collapse of the Roman empire in the West, and the emergence of the Eastern or “Byzantine” empire, with a distinctive culture that ...

Despite Putin's immense power (and rumoured vast wealth), he consistently presents himself as a servant of his people - a trick learned from the Emperors of Byzantium. His divorce, announced last week ...

A stunning gold earring discovered in Denmark may have been gifted by the Emperor of Byzantium to a Viking chief 1,000 years ago, experts claim. Dating from the 11th century, the 'completely unique' ...