What happened after the Ottomans took Constantinople in 1453? In this new season of Kings and Generals’ Ottoman Empire documentary, we explore the transformation of the former Byzantine capital into ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 struck the peninsula of Mount Athos on June 7, at 15:46. The strongest in a series of tremors, its epicenter was located in the sea near the coastal monasteries ...

Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map ...

Byzantine tomb complex discovered under Syrian war ruins - The ancient tomb was found by a construction worker in war-ravaged ...

A contractor found a tomb complex dating back to the Byzantine Empire in Syria's Idlib province, just as many residents have ...

Greece dismissed criticism from Turkey over a map presented as a gift to Patriarch Bartholomew, saying the gift was "purely ...

Our work develops a principled approach to Byzantine robust federated sequential decision-making by proposing a new federated multiarmed bandit problem. It not only characterizes the fundamental ...

A team of archaeologists has successfully identified the location of the ancient city of Tharais, a Byzantine site represented in the famous Madaba Map Mosaic. The discovery, made in the northwest of ...

One of the council's lasting legacies is the Nicene Creed, a profession of faith still recited by Christians of all big denominations. View on euronews ...

The conquest of Constantinople caused shockwaves throughout Europe. While the Byzantine Empire had been a shadow of its former self for centuries, the loss represented a final end to the Roman ...

Emperor Constantine XI fought to the end as Constantinople fell to the Ottomans on May 29, 1453, marking the collapse of the Byzantine Empire ... it is about how a city that fell still lives, not in ...

and everyday life during the Byzantine period from 324–638 CE. The mosaic was originally uncovered in 1990 during archaeological excavations near the site of Khirbat Be’er Shema by IAA ...