Lisbon is one of the oldest European cities. Founded by the Phoenicians, Lisbon was also home to the Romans, the Alans, and ...

Credit: Alexander Gerst / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons “Geography is destiny,” the 14th ... Cyprus remained a part of the Eastern Roman Empire (often referred to as the Byzantine Empire) for ...

We often hear Armenians declare that the Turks, with their history of oppression, atrocities and murder, are gifted with a strategic geography ... been difficult—Byzantine, Mede, Persian ...

Then I entered an entirely new and exotic realm — the eastern Roman Empire, a dominion that survived the fall of Rome in 476 by almost a thousand years. The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453 ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

The Kingdom of Thessalonica was a short-lived state that emerged during the Fourth Crusade after the sack of Constantinople ...

Ravenna (Italy) (AFP) – King Charles III and Queen Camilla wrapped up a state visit to Italy on Thursday with a visit to Dante's tomb and world-famous mosaics in Ravenna, the day after a ...

King Charles III and Queen Camilla wrapped up a state visit to Italy on Thursday with a visit to Dante's tomb and world-famous mosaics in Ravenna, the day after a surprise meeting with Pope Francis.

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...

The study proposes a new way to measure this inequality: not only by observing differences within each region of the empire, but also by comparing differences between regions. This approach offers a ...