Helen Gittos, a professor of medieval history at Oxford University, in the U.K., has developed a new theory regarding the ...

Sutton Hoo burials may have been British soldiers who fought in Byzantine army - For years, it was believed that royals could ...

New research suggests Sutton Hoo burial mounds in Suffolk may have contained Byzantine soldiers rather than Anglo-Saxon ...

One of the most amazing accomplishments of Byzantine monasteries was the miraculous preservation of ancient Greek treasures of wisdom.

Born around 530 AD into an aristocratic family in Constantinople, Empress Sophia rose to prominence upon her marriage to ...

Situated in the heart of Turkey’s Pontic Mountains, the Panagia Sumela Monastery, often referred to as the “Monastery on the ...

Monemvasia, on the southeastern shores of the Peloponnese, Greece is Europe's oldest continuously inhabited castle town.

The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury's night side before ...