A portrait of the final Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palailogos, has been discovered by archaeologists in Greece. The portrait was found on a mid-15th century fresco uncovered at a monastery in ...

Imagine being a Byzantine Emperor and all of a sudden, deciding to abandon everything and become a monk in a monastery.

(The Conversation) — Fierce debates about visual depictions of the sacred have existed for centuries. An art historian explains the controversies in the Byzantine Empire over images of Christ. (The ...

The so-called “Byzantine Empire” called itself Rome. But how Roman was it really? By 700 AD, Latin had faded, Greek dominated ...

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense, says ...

A metal detectorist has discovered a rare Byzantine coin in the mountains of Norway’s Vestre Slidre municipality, more than a millennium after it was created and over 1,600 miles away from its place ...

About a century before the fall of the Byzantine Empire — the eastern portion of the vast Roman Empire — signs of its impending doom were written in garbage. Archaeologists recently investigated ...

In November, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opened Africa & Byzantium, its first Byzantine-focused exhibition in nearly 20 years. According to the museum’s press release, the show promises ...

Technically, Spain is the dynastic heir to the Byzantine imperial claim through Andreas Palaiologos’s 1502 will. The modern Spanish monarchy is sometimes described in historical circles as holding a ...

From Charlottesville to the Capitol, medieval imagery has been repeatedly on show at far-right rallies and riots in recent years. But amid all the expected Viking imagery and nods to the Crusaders has ...