The Byzantine Empire was one of the first societies to offer its citizens some form of what we now call universal healthcare.

Digenes Akritas is an epic poem from the Byzantine Empire. It follows the exploits of the titular hero in the Byzantine ...

Kings and Generals has begun remaking its animated historical documentary on the rise of the Ottoman Empire, starting with ...

Columella’s “own community” was the region of what is today Cádiz in Spain.

A rare Byzantine manuscript discovered in a Greek monastery has unveiled hidden historical gems, offering new insights into ...

Turkey invests in capital goods through a mix of government-led projects, private sector contributions, and foreign direct ...

Peter Frankopan, Oxford historian, was first enticed by history in the 1970s, during summer holidays as a child in rural Sweden visiting his maternal grandfather (his paternal line was the ancient ...

Why did the Prime Minister go to Brussels yesterday to have dinner with European Union leaders during what they call their ...

The smaller, weakened Byzantine Empire, restored after the crusade, could not withstand the rising Ottoman Empire, whose conquest of Constantinople in 1453 disrupted Venice’s critical eastern ...

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Church, has zealously backed Russia’s ‘special military operation’ and castigates a morally ...

Such was their influence in Church history, through their evangelization efforts, that Pope John Paul II named the two ...