Documentary taking a look at the Fourth Crusade, one of the most widely-discussed episodes in Crusades history. In 1204, an ...

The Komnenos Dynasty came from obscure origins to revive the Byzantine Empire after a disastrous period of weak emperors and ...

Constantinople, the magnificent capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II ...

The largest collection of seventh-century gold coins found in Britain, discovered in a Norfolk field, is to go on show at Norwich Castle museum.

A hoard of rare and internationally significant gold coins, found in a West Norfolk field, has gone on display in Norwich.

For example, the game’s fictional fortifications resemble Constantinople’s Theodosian Walls, and the citadels and palatial structures of some Calradic castles and cities resemble the Byzantine-era ...

Created in the year c.3000 BCE, the Citadel of Aleppo, located in Aleppo, Syria is the oldest and largest castle in the world. Built atop a hill in Aleppo, the castle was declared a UNESCO World ...

Istanbul, Turkey CNN — The great and ancient city of Istanbul – formerly Constantinople ... it’s been a defense tower, a castle, a lighthouse, a cholera hospital, a radar station, a cyanide ...

A portrait of the final Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palailogos, has been discovered by archaeologists in Greece. The portrait was found on a mid-15th century fresco uncovered at a monastery ...

an eccentric style dubbed “Bristol Byzantine” flourished between the 1850s and 1890s, mixing Constantinople grandeur with a dash of Moorish flair. For sheer theatricality, however, nothing beats ...

303-336 AD), the emperor who established Constantinople as the seat of the Byzantine Empire, were found during excavation at Katsuren Castle on Okinawa Island, Japan. Archaeologists have been ...

Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may have solved a centuries-old puzzle - the true identity of a leading Byzantine painter who injected humanity into ...