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Vicious empress blinded her own son to steal the Byzantine throne
In the eighth century, an Athenian teenager named Irene won a royal beauty pageant. This victory secured her spot in the ...
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Greek fire was the most devastating weapon in the Eastern Roman Empire. But what was it?
Before modern weapons of mass destruction, there was Greek fire (ignis graecus). This was the term medieval Crusaders applied to Byzantine (Eastern Roman) incendiary weapons famously used in naval ...
Following the defeat of the Cilician pirates by Pompey “the Great” in 66 BCE, Rome faced no serious threat to its maritime supremacy in the Mediterranean; at least not until the Vandals mastered ...
In the first quarter of the 11th century, a force of Kievan Rus’ warriors sailed for Constantinople hoping to join the Varangian Guard — the Byzantine emperor’s elite personal bodyguard, foreign ...
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