George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

The famous helmet from the ship burial at Sutton Hoo in England may be evidence that Anglo-Saxon warriors fought as mercenaries for the Byzantine Empire in the sixth century, a new study finds.

But a leading Anglo-Saxon expert has now suggested it might have been the grave of British soldiers who fought for the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century AD. The site was unearthed in the late ...

The period from the late fourth to the sixth century C.E. saw the collapse of the Roman empire in the West, and the emergence of the Eastern or “Byzantine” empire, with a distinctive culture that ...