The effort started when amateur archaeologists discovered a single gold coin in a nearby field in Holzthum village in north ...

Digenes Akritas is an epic poem from the Byzantine Empire. It follows the exploits of the titular hero in the Byzantine ...

The Roman Empire's enduring legacy has profoundly impacted modern politics, architecture, law, and culture. Yet, its origins ...

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), in which ...

and Theodosius (ruled from A.D. 379 to 395), but there were more than 170 when the entire lines of both the Western and Eastern Roman emperors are included. Some emperors were famously bad ...

An rare discovery in northern Luxembourg has given historians a fresh glimpse into the final years of the Western Roman ...

The unique circumstances put question marks around his reign from the start and Theodosius I, the Eastern Roman Emperor, never fully afforded him power. Eugenius, who did have some support from ...