Today its site is marked out by municipal flower beds; Kaiser Wilhelm II added a polychrome fountain. Here the Byzantine Emperors were welcomed by the rhythmic acclamations of the factions that ...

The Hagia Sophia is the most iconic symbol of Byzantine architecture. Credit Benh LIEU SONG / CC BY-SA 2.0 / via Wikimedia Commons Despite relative obscurity in Western historiography, Byzantine ...

He’s a U.S. licensed customs broker, which means he handles the paperwork to process imports and calculate duties and fees for products brought into the country. It’s a staggeringly tedious ...

Correction: In this piece, we misspoke when describing the IDs that Lopez-Gomez presented and proper forms of identification under the law. Lopez-Gomez said he presented both his social security ...

Byzantine Greek is the dominant form of Greek written during the Byzantine Empire (AD 330–1453). The spoken language changed significantly in this period and came close to Modern Greek, but most ...

The walls of Thessaloniki. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Elisa Triolo, CC-BY-SA-2.0 In the turbulent years following the conquest of Constantinople in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade, a number of ...

Palestinian village is actually a Byzantine period synagogueDavid Cohen/Flash90 An article about a new book on "Palestinian history and culture," published in The Guardian, embarrassingly used a ...

Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora were the 6th Century golden couple of the Byzantine Empire. Think Jay-Z and Beyonce - but with a lot more chariots. Script and narration by Emma Nagouse ...