For a thousand years after 476, the empire in Constantinople still called itself Roman. The term “Byzantine Empire” was invented in the 16th century—long after the state had fallen. It wasn’t just a ...

Archaeologists in Norway have uncovered a stunning medieval gold ring featuring a rare blue gemstone, providing a remarkable ...

The delicate gold ring was made sometime in the Middle Ages and may have belonged to a high-status woman.

Since 2014, Russia has promoted a nationalist and irredentist narrative portraying Crimea as “historically Russian land,” ...

A cache of 18th-century letters reveals Suzanne Vera’s ancestral link to the French acquisition of the Venus de Milo, tracing a remarkable Greek family story of diplomacy, revolution and cultural ...

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 ...