The Byzantine Empire, also called Byzantium, was the eastern half of the Roman Empire that continued on after the western half of the empire collapsed. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Relive the dramatic fall of Constantinople in 1453, the siege that ended the Byzantine Empire and reshaped world history. This video explores the Ottoman assault led by Sultan Mehmed II, the massive ...

Empire and the Sasanian (Persian) Empire in the 7th century CE was one of the most consequential military conflicts in world history. Yet few people today have heard of it and most history classes ...

During the past century, the tiny, inbred academic field of Byzantine Studies was dominated by professors of British, French, or Slavic heritage. More recently, a generation of young scholars with ...

Theodore Christou receives funding from Queen's University and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Queen's University, Ontario provides funding as a founding partner of The ...

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, says ...

A Roman chariot race, showing men from two of the four color-themed demes, or associations, that produced the Blues and the Greens. From a poster advertising the 1925 film version of Ben-Hur.