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 ...

C onservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a previously unknown portrait of the last emperor of Byzantine, Constantine XI Palaiologos (Feb. 8 1404 – May 29 1453), dubbed the last ...

The Byzantine Empire maintained an intriguing relationship with ancient China, thus sending ambassadors there.

A silver platter, known as the “Anastasius Dish”, bears the monogram of Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I (491–518), indicating its origin in Constantinople. Silver vessels from Sutton Hoo, mentioned in ...