Born around 530 AD into an aristocratic family in Constantinople, Empress Sophia rose to prominence upon her marriage to ...
The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury's night side before ...
Helen Gittos, a professor of medieval history at Oxford University, in the U.K., has developed a new theory regarding the ...
New research suggests Sutton Hoo burial mounds in Suffolk may have contained Byzantine soldiers rather than Anglo-Saxon ...
Situated in the heart of Turkey’s Pontic Mountains, the Panagia Sumela Monastery, often referred to as the “Monastery on the ...
Monemvasia, on the southeastern shores of the Peloponnese, Greece is Europe's oldest continuously inhabited castle town.
Attributed to ancient Greek sculptor Lysippos, the exquisite bronze horses adorning the basilica of Saint Mark in Venice have ...
Ever since the Sutton Hoo burial ship was discovered by Basil Brown in 1939 many historians have been convinced that the body found in it was Raedwald - who reigned from 599 until his death 25 years ...
For years, it was believed that royals could have been buried at the famous site - but a leading academic has another theory ...
The First Crusade was one of the most extraordinary, bloody and significant episodes in medieval history. It began with an appeal for aid from the Christian Byzantine Empire, threatened by the rising ...