A portrait of the final Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palailogos, has been discovered by archaeologists in Greece. The portrait was found on a mid-15th century fresco uncovered at a monastery in ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the long-lost Great Baptistery at the largest Christian cathedral ever constructed in the ancient world. Inside that structure, emperors would have baptized ...

Archaeologists working at the Tuida Fortress on top of the Hisarlaka Hill, Sliven, Bulgaria, were surprised by a new artifact among the ruins. They uncovered a rare cold coin from the time of the ...

Conservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a previously unknown portrait of the last emperor of Byzantine, ...

The Byzantine Empire, also called Byzantium, was the eastern half of the Roman Empire that continued on after the western half of the empire collapsed. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

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 ...

Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for Vikings: Valhalla Season 3. Varangians were elite Viking warriors in the Byzantine army, serving as the Emperor's personal protectors. In Vikings: ...

AIGIALEIA, GREECE—ArtNet News reports that a portrait of the Byzantine emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos was discovered during restoration work at the Holy Monastery of Pammegiston Taxiarchon in ...

For reviewers, books generated by academic conferences present a challenge. Typically each scholar invited to submit a paper beats the drum of his or her own micro-specialty, paying minimal lip ...

Ravenna is on Italy’s tourist map for one reason: its 1,500-year-old churches decorated with best-in-the-West Byzantine mosaics. While locals go about their business, busloads of tourists slip in and ...

Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxi, 440+. Illus., maps, table, appends., notes, biblio., index. $44.99. ISBN: 1108480713 A Byzantine ...

Byzantion is an international peer reviewed journal founded in 1924; it is devoted to Byzantine culture and covers literature, history and art history, including the related disciplines. Every volume ...