Business dealings, personal letters and other traces of ordinary life.

Excavation of the fourth-century settlement revealed a street grid, residential and religious buildings, and fortifications.

For 1,600 years, a once-thriving frontier settlement lay buried beneath Egypt's western desert. Once governed by Byzantine ...

Associate Prof. Koray Durak, the curator of "The Adventure of Byzantine Studies in Turkey" exhibition, says that although society has continuous "physical contact" with Byzantium in Turkey, the public ...

The Byzantine Empire’s long run — 1,100 years — may seem remote from the 21st century, but a reading of its history offers at least three timeless lessons. Understanding some of the fatal weaknesses ...

WHEN Nikolai Patrushev, head of Russia's federal security service (FSB), spoke to his staff to mark the 90th anniversary of the Soviet secret service last year, he made an odd historic diversion.

During the past century, the tiny, inbred academic field of Byzantine Studies was dominated by professors of British, French, or Slavic heritage. More recently, a generation of young scholars with ...

It seemed a small detail at first: the stains of soot around the wick hole of a clay oil lamp from Tunisia, dated to the sixth century CE. At the time, Tunisia — along with parts of present-day ...