Shadows is designed as something of a soft reboot for the series, with no playable modern day section and a strong focus on ...

Byzantine invasion Things changed dramatically for Rome after Theodoric's death, when Justinian I, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantine Empire, invaded Italy in 535.

Throughout antiquity, kingdoms and nations rose and fell but Rome stood strong—until its steep decline. The fall of this ...

The final hours of Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Byzantine Emperor and the powerful legend of the 'Marble Emperor.' ...

The Cathars appeared in Europe in the eleventh century, their origins something of a mystery though there is reason to believe their ideas came from Persia or the Byzantine Empire, by way of the ...

Built as a church and repurposed during its 1,500‑year history as a mosque, a museum and now a mosque once more, the Hagia ...

Few people will not have heard of Marco Polo, the Venetian traveler who, between the 13th and 14th centuries, traveled ...

Imagine a world where the Byzantine Empire never fell—how would history, religion, and geopolitics have evolved?

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday told more than a million Catholic youths that they are “the sign that a different world is possible" ...

Byzantine Empire, 610 - 641 Obverse Image: Front facing busts of Heraclius on left and Heraclius Constantine on right, each wearing chlamys and crown with cross.

Pope Leo XIV made his first “getaway” from Castel Gandolfo to visit the Monastery of the Immaculate Conception of the Poor Clares of Albano.