This is the twentieth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe, Turkey, and the Near East to Georgia and ...

Greek was its spoken language ... 18th century map of Constantinople. Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons/ Public Domain It is also partly because Greeks naturally feel nostalgic for the splendor that was ...

The team used maps and field surveys to identify the ... which dates all the way back to the Byzantine Empire. And researchers might have just found it. Starting in 2021, a research team led ...

A team of archaeologists has successfully identified the location of the ancient city of Tharais, a Byzantine site represented in the famous Madaba Map Mosaic. The discovery, made in the northwest of ...

The Byzantine Empire (also known as Byzantium or the Eastern Roman Empire) was the eastern half of the Roman Empire that ...

The Byzantine Empire, which began in the 4th century AD, was a continuation of the Roman empire with its capital in Constantinople — today’s Istanbul — and Christianity as its official religion.

‘Of that Byzantine Empire the universal verdict of history ... (Kaldellis, p. 71) The concept of “empire” normally involves a dominant ethnic, language or religious group ruling over conquered ...

It's an example of Byzantine craft – referring to the Byzantine Empire, the powerful civilization based at Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul). It is thought to have been made several ...

Arbalest flame-thrower spewing Greek fire, Byzantine Empire (reconstruction). Thessaloniki Technology Museum. Credit: Gts-tg/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Greek fire was the mysterious weapon used by ...

It might be where the language itself originated, but oddly enough, English isn’t the official language of the United Kingdom. WordTips examined both the de facto and de jure official languages ...

The team started looking for a city named Tharais, which dates back to the Byzantine Empire. The work started in 2021, and after four years of research, the archaeologists think they might have found ...