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

In Roman Constantinople, there was intense and often very violent rivalry between the supporters of the two main teams of charioteers – civil discord that makes modern football rivalries look ...

It is a charmingly written story, devoid of rhetorical flourishes, and an invaluable addition to the literature dealing with Roman Constantinople.

The mystery of Greek fire continues to baffle historians millennia after its creation. Not only did the 7th-century weapon ...

What was the vitriolic report of Liutprand of Cremona, whose insults towards the Byzantines created a caricature of the ...

Leo XIV stated that his intention is to 'persevere in the effort to reestablish full visible communion between our Churches..

Worse still, according to Zosimus (a 5th-century Greek historian and official in Constantinople who authored a chronicle on the Roman Empire titled New History), the Ostrogothic comes reached Lydia ...

Historians have chosen the year of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, 1453, as a reference point to mark the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Age. The capital of the ...

It was an inspiration of genius which led the Roman Emperor to choose this site for one of the great capitals of the world. It lies in just the point of intersection of what ought to have been ...

Vikings Valhalla season 2 location Constantinople is pivotal in history Vikings Valhalla season 2 saw Leif Erikson and Harald Sigurdsson lead a crew on a perilous journey to Constantinople.