Blessed are you when you come in and blessed are you when you go out' are the words inscribed into preserved mosaic tiles on ...

Archaeologists think the tiles once lined a Byzantine-era monastery. The complex also included a large warehouse and ...

Life in Greece and in the Byzantine Empire as a whole is a fascinating chapter of human history that not many pay attention ...

As Catholic Christians, we are taught to forgive others, to reconcile with our neighbor, to seek out amicable ways to end grudges and angry separations; yet we have been part of a grudge ...

The famous helmet is among the Anglo-Saxon artifacts that indicate an eastern link with the Byzantine Empire. The famous ...

Born around 530 AD into an aristocratic family in Constantinople, Empress Sophia rose to prominence upon her marriage to ...

Helen Gittos, a professor of medieval history at Oxford University, in the U.K., has developed a new theory regarding the ...

New research suggests Sutton Hoo burial mounds in Suffolk may have contained Byzantine soldiers rather than Anglo-Saxon ...

A complex wine press and numerous artifacts were also discovered during excavations at the ancient site in Israel.

For years, it was believed that royals could have been buried at the famous site - but a leading academic has another theory ...

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern ...