When Odysseus encounters the Cyclops in Book 9 of Homer’s Odyssey, the giant’s first question is: “Who are you, strangers?

The report, by Policy Exchange, found that by comparison nearly all schools are teaching children about the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the Abolition of Slavery and the Norman Conquest of England.

In 1081, while the Byzantine Empire was mired in a succession crisis, Robert Guiscard, Norman Duke of Apulia-Calabria, sought to take advantage and launched his conquest. To maintain appearances, he ...

The current Hagia Sophia was built in the 6th century when Constantinople — as Istanbul was then called — was the heart of the Orthodox Christian Byzantine Empire that emerged as Ancient Rome ...

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Secondly, the Bayeux Tapestry - the 11th century embroidered pictorial account of the Norman conquest - shows Harold ... was supported by the vast German empire (also known as the Holy Roman ...

Embers of the Hands focuses on the lives of ordinary people during a period that traditionally begins with the first seaborne pagan raids on western Christendom and ends with the Norman Conquest.

Tablets from the Sumerian empire of 3100 BC record the names ... It’s believed the Norman conquest of 1066 popularised the idea of surnames to the early Britons; the invading Frenchmen ...

in 1080 Bohemond accompanied his father leading the Norman army that attacked the Byzantine Empire through Thessaly, defeated the Varangian Guard at Dyrrachium, and reached Larissa, although he ...

However, one such opportunity is playing as Strategos Michael II, a Landless Adventurer in the Byzantine Empire ... there is player involvement in the Conquest, the situation remains temporary.