An art historian explains the controversies in the Byzantine Empire over images of Christ. (The Conversation) — An adjunct lecturer at Hamline University recently lost her job for showing an ...

Momentous events usually have a history, and the collapse of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire in 1453 can be said to have its onset 399 years earlier. There is a direct line from the Great ...

When someone stashed 44 gold coins into a wall in the seventh century, they may have hoped to one day return and find their treasure again. Instead, almost 1,400 years on, the coins have been ...