During the 15th and 16th centuries, a wave of Greek Byzantine scholars arrived in Italy where they contributed tremendously ...

Byzantine-era monuments in Istanbul, Turkey, formerly the Byzantine capital city known as Constantinople, are being covered ...

Silk production and trade became an important part of the Byzantine economy from the 6th century on. The 4th and early 6th centuries were a time of active long distance trade. During the year 306 CE, ...

The Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the Roman Empire ... during which emperors ruled as civilians from the city officially named New Rome but commonly called Constantinople (“Constantine ...

Criterion (iii): Mystras constitutes a unique example of a Byzantine city, an expression of flourishing urban society within the late Byzantine Empire. As a political and administrative provincial ...

photograph by Annie Griffiths, National Geographic Byzantine floor mosaics are found in the remains of the Petra Church. An earthquake in A.D. 363 leveled many of the city’s buildings.

Among its many religious relics, the Khirbat el-Masani monastery, in the northern part of the city, held secrets ... the monastic order of the Byzantine Empire. Determining the sex of a centuries ...