After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the exiled Byzantine claimant Andreas Palaiologos bequeathed the imperial title in ...

When the Western Roman Empire collapsed in 476 AD, the story of Rome did not simply end. Instead, many powerful states began ...

Word of the day: Byzantine is a long, historically rooted and dramatically expressive word meaning excessively complicated or labyrinthine, often with strategic undertones. Derived from the Byzantine ...

The Monastery of Panagia Yiatrissa (“Mary the Healer”) in Kastania, on the slopes of Taygetus, is traditionally believed to stand on the ruins of an ancient temple dedicated to Athena. In villages ...

We can split atoms, map the human genome, and launch cars into space. Still, there are objects built hundreds or even ...

After the fall of Númenor, Gondor rose as the greatest kingdom of Men in Middle-earth — but its survival was never guaranteed ...

In 1204 the soldiers who had set out to retake Jerusalem in the Fourth Crusade changed course—but why? The result would change medieval Europe forever.

History has a way of dulling misery with distance. From the safety of the present, we like to think our current crises are ...

In the small village of Sarikaya, Turkey, a 2,000-year-old Roman bath is still fed by a local hot spring. Here's how to visit.

The Bogomils were a Christian sect that originated in 10th century Bulgaria and believed that God had two sons, Jesus and Satan.

Yes, they were brutal. They also had women leaders, coveted luxury, and encountered more than 50 cultures from Afghanistan to ...

Ancient Iran had a series of powerful empires that left their mark on antiquity. Then as now, imperial power is seldom acquired or advertised through peaceful means, and the more expansionist it is, t ...