Dame Averil Cameron, who has died aged 86, was Professor of Byzantine History at Oxford, and a leading voice in a generation ...

Archaeological excavation at the ancient city of Hippos, located near the Sea of Galilee in Israel, has revealed a remarkable Byzantine cathedral featuring a unique double baptistery and an enigmatic ...

Additional discoveries made a the site included a bronze candelabrum and marble reliquary, both the largest of their kind to ...

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

During the 15th and 16th centuries, a wave of Greek Byzantine scholars arrived in Italy where they contributed tremendously to the Renaissance ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Our findings show how difficult it was to maintain agriculture in the desert and how vulnerable the system was during periods of prolonged drought," the researchers concluded. Even in the Byzantine ...

In Istanbul, major public transit projects are back under way after years of paralysis. The problem wasn't a lack of financing, but the layer upon layer of ancient artifacts that turned up every time ...