Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

xx, 1207 p. : 24 cmPublication date 2008 Topics Byzantine Empire -- History -- 527-1081, Byzantine Empire -- History -- 1081-1453 Publisher Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press ...

When I began exploring the history of Christianity and the art it inspired, I had no idea it would lead me to one of the ...

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

In 1204, during the Fourth Crusade, Crusaders diverted from their mission to the Holy Land and instead sacked Constantinople, ...

Neil MacGregor with a 14th century icon from the Byzantine Empire.

Belisarius was the Byzantine military genius behind Justinian's conquests. His incredible victories were overshadowed by an ...

UNESCO World Heritage CentreFrom 500 BCE on, the Roman Empire extended its territory across parts of Europe and North Africa until its frontier totaled some 7,500 kilometres by the 2nd century. The ...

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

Up to 17 million people have passed through the slave trade in the Muslim world since the 7th century. Tragically, the ...

We study a setting where a group of agents, each receiving partially informative private signals, seek to collaboratively learn the true underlying state of the world (from a finite set of hypotheses) ...