From the savage revenge of Princess Olga to the lightning campaigns of her warrior son Sviatoslav, the story of Kievan Rus is ...

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 ...

Byzantine emperors were not gods, yet they staged a sacred politics, casting themselves as heaven's image through ritual, law ...

Byzantine princess Maria Palaiologina went to Mongolia for her arranged marriage to a Mongolian king as an imperial diplomatic move ...

The Met and Sabyasachi will unveil their first collaborative high jewelry collection, drawing inspiration from Byzantine art ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Republican candidates for president debated Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Cain’s flat rate for income, corporate, and sales tax would replace the Byzantine U.S. income tax ...

The victory marked the rise of the Caliphate as it expanded outside the Arabian peninsula, and marked the first major clash between Muslims and Christians. August 20, 2021 marks 1,385 years since the ...