The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories ...

Examine and learn to address urgent global issues like climate change, migration, geopolitics and urban development from a human and physical geography standpoint. Get first-hand experience on field ...

as this was a term that the Byzantine Greeks never used for themselves. 16th-century scholars came up with this term, which tried to distinguish the legacy of the Eastern Roman Empire from the Western ...

we mentioned the Akritai (or Akritoi), a group of light infantry soldiers who guarded the eastern frontiers of the Byzantine Empire and were recruited from the peasants of the border provinces. Today, ...

A multidisciplinary and international research project has brought fresh insights into the origins and diversity of the populations that lived under and after the Hun empire between the late 4th ...

Discovered on accident in Rimini, Italy, this surgeon’s house and the hooks, scalpels, and mortars inside have expanded what we knew about ancient medicine.