The Roman Empire’s conquest of Dacia and Mesopotamia marked two major expansions—one in the rugged north, the other into the ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, is a Greek name, too, deriving from the Greek phrase "Is tin poli," meaning "to the city." ...

Archaeologists have found the remains of a Roman fortress in northern Sinai. The discovery illuminates the Roman Empire’s ...

and the Eastern Roman Empire's Plague of Justinian. The new study's connection to those tumultuous years began tangentially, after the scientists behind it used satellite images to discover that a ...

This abrupt cooling coincided with a turbulent time in the Eastern Roman Empire. "These events overlapped ... mass migrations that transformed the map of Europe at the time.

This suggests that the LALIA could have put significant strain on the Eastern Roman Empire and adds to a growing body of evidence pointing to its role in the empire's decline.

the Western Empire and the Eastern Empire. The Western Roman Empire had already fallen by the time this climatic shift began around 540 CE. It was conquered by a Germanic king some 60 years earlier.

As a Roman province, Cyprus was a key administrative and military center, valued for its resources, harbors, and strategic location near the volatile eastern frontier ... of the 20th century. Map ...

“Anyone feeling late stage empire vibes ... the protector of old-fashioned Roman values against the threat of Mark Antony and Cleopatra’s effeminate, eastern degeneracy.

The Eastern Roman Empire (shown in yellow on the map above) maintained a guilty neutrality toward its Western counterpart, contributing to its eventual collapse.

A recent study challenges conventional ideas about the decline of the Eastern Roman Empire. Contrary to popular belief, natural disasters and epidemics may not have been the main causes of the decline ...