The trail’s 215 miles connect ancient road networks with modern hiking paths, tracing rivers, twisting up gorges and traversing the ruins of Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine cities. Map ...

The geopolitical importance of Cyprus has been both a blessing and a curse, sparking centuries of conflict over control of ...

Instead of letting the Byzantine Empire rot and fall, you can help it reclaim the entire Mediterranean. Instead of watching the Karling dynasty fall to ruin, you can reforge the Holy Roman Empire ...

It also highlights Rome’s unique approach to citizenship, which helped create a multicultural empire while ... reshaped Roman concepts of identity into the Byzantine era. US Ally Upgrades ...

in the 9th century B.C., is home to ruins from the Hellenistic (Greek empire built by Alexander the Great), Roman and Byzantine (eastern Roman empire) eras. Stroll through Ancient Thera and you'll ...

He’s the much-loved, much-bearded figure of Great British art. A new Paris exhibition will show you why.

he is working on a comparative study of the identity formation of the Japanese living in the shadow of the Chinese Empire, of the Arabs in that of the Persian and Byzantine Empires, and of the ...

The Byzantine Empire was built on the backs of the rural and urban labour force. From agricultural production and the extraction of raw materials to the physical construction of urban centres and ...

Credit: Domenico Ghirlandaio / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Between the 14th and 15th centuries, a wave of Greek scholars left their beleaguered homeland in the Byzantine Empire for the ...

Both men were Syrian Nestorians, a denomination of Christianity considered heretical in the eastern Roman Empire ... such as seventh-century Byzantine medic Paul of Aegina. Translated into ...

However, we can say the island really got on the map when it was settled in the mid-7th Century ... traditions and even coinage until well into the days of the Roman Empire, when it became an official ...