This discovery offers rare evidence that women, too, embraced extreme religious devotion, possibly forming some of the first known nunneries within the Byzantine Empire. Unearthing a 5th-century ...

The Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the Roman Empire ... Later, during the Enlightenment, as the West moved to exclude religion from politics, the Byzantines were held up as the prime ...

Byzantine-era monuments in Istanbul, Turkey, formerly the Byzantine capital city known as Constantinople, are being covered ...

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 ...