Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea ...

Women played diverse and influential roles in the Byzantine Empire that extended far beyond the domestic affairs of each family.

The Parthenon's function as a church, along with the Byzantines' reign, lasted another millennium until the Turkish Ottoman Empire captured Athens in 1458. The new Muslim rulers converted the ...

He preached in some of the empire’s most important cities. Although places like Ephesus, Philippi, Corinth and Athens looked magnificent, they were also home to tens of thousands of poor ...

Visiting Athens, Greece, is a bucket-list trip for many people. Athens was the at the heart of the ancient Greek empire, and the city played an important part in the development of democracy ...