A unique portrait of Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last emperor of the Byzantine Empire, was discovered at ... a light-colored sakkos and a diadem crown. The figure holds a cross-bearing scepter.

The social position of Byzantine women is not easy to assess considering the vast reach of the empire and the many cultures it encompassed.

Many factors contributed to the survival of the Byzantine Empire. It had a good infrastructure system that funneled agricultural supplies, and it had a good infrastructure system that funneled these ...

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

As the westernmost pillar of the Byzantine Empire, Ravenna was a flickering light ... is Emperor Justinian – sporting both a ...

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 ...