When you think of Byzantine emperors, you don’t necessarily think of flying thrones, machines and automations, do you?

On the Conquest of Constantinople is one of the most important historical sources on the Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople.

We take a look at the unexpected places the Vikings reached, and what remnants of their visits you can still see today.

Turkey has been in the news in recent weeks for a role it knows well: peacemaker. As tensions simmer between the United ...

A new volume published by Baylor University Press presents the first English translation of Ibn al-Layth’s Letter to the King of Rome, an early Islamic apologetic text from the Abbasid–Byzantine era.

Method of Mechanical Theorems is a letter from Archimedes to Eratosthenes, the head of the library of Alexandria and a ...

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In 1081, Alexios Komnenos faced the Normans on the Adriatic as Robert Guiscard and his son Bohemond carved into the empire at its weakest moment. This chapter follows Dyrrhachium, the rise of Bohemond ...

Muneer Elbaz still remembers walking hand in hand with his family through Gaza’s old markets, the call to prayer rising from the Great Omari Mosque as ...

Manama, Feb. 10 (BNA): The Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA), in collaboration with the Embassy of the ...

The Polish black metal titans are bringing the apocalypse to Australia next week The post 5 Times Behemoth Offended God (And ...

Revealing remarkable religious diversity in the region, German archaeologists uncovered evidence of Christians and ...