The transformation of the Roman Empire into what modern historians call Byzantium was not a single event but a gradual ...

Associate Prof. Koray Durak, the curator of "The Adventure of Byzantine Studies in Turkey" exhibition, says that although society has continuous "physical contact" with Byzantium in Turkey, the public ...

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

PRINCETON BOROUGH — Princeton University historian John Haldon, a leading authority on medieval Byzantine history, can't really remember a time when history didn't intrigue him. When his father was a ...

During the past century, the tiny, inbred academic field of Byzantine Studies was dominated by professors of British, French, or Slavic heritage. More recently, a generation of young scholars with ...

Istanbul makes an exotic first impression: Boat traffic on the Bosporus sends waves brushing up against the shores of both Europe and Asia as enormous mosques and monuments from previous empires stand ...

Egypt has not finished surprising us. Far from the pyramids and the country’s most famous temples, a major archaeological discovery has just been announced in Upper Egypt. Near the city of Sohag, ...

In his 1869 opus A History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, British historian William Lecky wrote, “Of that Byzantine empire, the universal verdict of history is that it constitutes, ...

Congratulations to my dear friend Sharon Gerstel, an art history professor at University of California at Los Angeles, on her Runciman Award, which she just got for her book, “Rural Lives and ...

In 1907 about 18 young men, heads of their households and all under 30 years old, gathered to start a church in Northeast Minneapolis. Ethnic Rusins, they had emigrated from an east European region ...