Centuries of church schisms show that if there’s a doctrine to be fought over, there’s a good chance Christians will fight ...

Greek minuscule reshaped Byzantine writing, preserving ancient knowledge and influencing the evolution of modern Greek script ...

We know what landmarks look like today, but structures like the Statue of Liberty and the Sydney Opera House looked a little ...

History is littered with brilliant ideas that arrived too early for their own good. Some were buried by economic constraints, ...

In the year 830 CE, Theophilus, the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor, was loaded. He sent a bunch of expensive gifts to the Abbasid Caliph, and his own throne was solid gold with golden lions and ...

The siege of Constantinople by the Avars in a fresco in the Romanian monastery of Moldovita. Credit: DimiTalen / Wikimedia Commons Although the most famous one was carried out by the Ottomans in 1453, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Reverse Image: Andronicus kneeling on ...

The ambassador of a Western kingdom crosses the threshold of the Magnaura, the great reception hall of the Byzantine imperial palace. The air vibrates with a mix of fear and expectation; his mission ...

Everyone rode bareback or with just a saddle cloth until about the fourth century A.D. Early European saddles had no stirrups until the reign of Emperor Maurice (A.D. 582-602), after he learned about ...