Empress Zoe Porphyrogenita is among the most intriguing female figures in Byzantine history for a number of good reasons.

California officials denied—and tried to hide—the first plague epidemic that reached U.S. shores Sarah Holzmann Archaeologists think the tiles once lined a Byzantine-era monastery. The complex ...

Digenes Akritas is an epic poem from the Byzantine Empire. It follows the exploits of the titular hero in the Byzantine ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed five gold coins dating to the time of the emperor Justinian the Great (ruled from A.D. 527 to 565). Although it is not unusual to discover coins during ...