Have you ever thought that politics feels like a rollercoaster, with machinations and sharp ups and downs similar to those of Byzantium?

Byzantine architecture has had a profound influence across the world, including in the Balkans, Middle East, and North ...

Many factors contributed to the survival of the Byzantine Empire. It had a good infrastructure system that funneled agricultural supplies, and it had a good infrastructure system that funneled these ...

Mehmed, who was just 21 when he conquered Istanbul, put the Ottoman Empire on the path of great transformation. Sultan Mehmed II was just 21 years old when he defeated the Byzantine Empire ...

Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora were the 6th Century golden couple of the Byzantine Empire. Think Jay-Z and ... From the Malta Knights keyhole to a set of vanishing columns, discover ...

In his case, the Byzantine Empire with whom he shared a border ... More than 1,700 of his elite cavalry, the Muslim world’s equivalent of knights, were captured and suffered the humiliating ...

The knights of the West knew only one occupation ... they only came too late. The fall of the Byzantine Empire is the fall of a nation, but not the fall of the Byzantine inheritance. This is exactly ...

A French knight, Baldwin Hainaut, was installed as the “Latin Emperor of Constantinople,” while the Byzantine Greek elite fled, eventually setting up several successor states in remaining fragments of ...