Before modern weapons of mass destruction, there was Greek fire (ignis graecus). This was the term medieval Crusaders applied ...

The mud-brick village boasts streets, towers and a large church. Researchers unearthed everyday objects like grain grinders, ...

Zeno was the Byzantine Emperor who witnessed the end of the Western Roman Empire. He is known for being buried alive by his wife.

The fourth-century residential city in the western desert is one of two major archaeological finds announced by Egypt on Saturday.

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense, says ...

Discovery of well-preserved city and churches at Dakhla Oasis announced by Cairo alongside finding of ancient tombs in Marina el-Alamein, as Egypt looks to boost tourism ...

The finding was made during an excavation at the Harbor of Eleutherios, one of the ports of ancient Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Archaeologists discovered a pair of ...

For many years, the secret of making silk was well guarded by the Chinese, and taking away the worms or even their eggs out ...

Mehmed, who was just 21 when he conquered Istanbul, put the Ottoman Empire on the path of great transformation. Sultan Mehmed II was just 21 years old when he defeated the Byzantine Empire, ...