The mystery of Greek fire continues to baffle historians millennia after its creation. Not only did the 7th-century weapon ...

What was the vitriolic report of Liutprand of Cremona, whose insults towards the Byzantines created a caricature of the ...

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Hassan Ismail of the Idlib Museum takes notes at a Byzantine underground tomb complex, believed to be over 1,500 years old, uncovered by a contractor during reconstruction of a war-damaged house ...

The Byzantine Empire, which began in the 4th century AD, was a continuation of the Roman empire with its capital in Constantinople — today’s Istanbul — and Christianity as its official religion.

The Byzantine Empire, which began in the 4th century AD ... will fairly compensate property owners in such cases and provide assistance to the displaced people who have returned to the area to find ...

Even Niall Ferguson, an apologist for the West’s colonial depredations, is forced to concede that the ‘decline of the West is ...

The current crisis between Israel and Iran, as well as the involvement of the United States of America, has proved once more that in international power ...

From ancient household gods to the resilience of refugee communities, the Pontic Greeks carried their faith, culture, and ...

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But there is no substitute for walking around the city, which is endlessly fascinating. Another relatively obscure attraction ...

THE medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.