Michael III, the "Alcoholic" Byzantine Emperor, ruled surprisingly well despite his controversial behavior and personal ...

The wealth of the nation was due to trade and to its military strength. At the same time, western Roman cities began to crumble while Constantinople remained stable. How did the Byzantine Empire ...

The Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the Roman Empire ... Historians call the republic’s later, third phase the Dominate—during which military emperors, ruling from wherever military ...

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

For the Eastern Roman Empire -- known to us as "Byzantine" -- the Danube was a critical military and political frontier. In the disastrous seventh century this frontier was overwhelmed by invading ...

Unbeknownst to a group of researchers digging near a small Italian town, a Christian basilica once stood in a Roman military colony. Thousands of years later, it was unearthed. The major discovery ...

The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories in Egypt, North Africa, and the Levant lost to the expanding Islamic ...

There were approximately 73 emperors and five ruling empresses of the Eastern Roman empire, which we call “Byzantine” (the count varies ... II,” which cautiously suggests that this ferocious military ...