But a leading Anglo-Saxon expert has now suggested it might have been the grave of British soldiers who fought for the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century AD. The site was unearthed in the late ...

The Byzantine Empire faced numerous challenges, forcing many Greeks to employ genius tactics to defend the Empire.

During the 6th century, the Byzantine Empire, under threat from the Sassanid Empire, conducted extensive recruitment campaigns for troops in Western Europe. These forces, known as Foederati, included ...

Ancient shipwrecks have given scientists fresh insights into why the final remnants of the Roman Empire collapsed ... plagues and climate change in the 6th century started Constantinople's ...

The famous helmet from the ship burial at Sutton Hoo in England may be evidence that Anglo-Saxon warriors fought as mercenaries for the Byzantine Empire in the sixth century, a new study finds.

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting ... the Western world awoke and arose. Some kinder 20th-century scholars have offered modest corrections to the ...

Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.

Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora were the 6th Century golden couple of the Byzantine Empire. Think Jay-Z and Beyonce - but with a lot more chariots. Script and narration by Emma Nagouse ...

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also referred to as the Byzantine Empire ... there was no ...

Jan. 6 (UPI) --At least 10 buildings and multiple artifacts from the 5th or 6th century have been uncovered in southern Israel in what authorities say is an ancient Byzantine monastery thousands ...

Byzantine, medieval and Ottoman eras Demetrios Ioannou Discovered in Valencia in 1994, the iron blade was recently dated to the tenth century, when the Umayyad Caliphate controlled the Iberian ...