As the Los Angeles area begins the formidable task of rebuilding after the most destructive wildfires in its history, the ...

Belisarius mosaic. Credit: Petar Milošević. CC BY-4.0/Wikimedia Commons/Petar Milosevic Belisarius is the much underrated military commander of the Byzantine Empire who led the armies of Justinian I ...

He was a Byzantine emperor who reigned from 491 to 518 CE. Born around 430 CE in Dyrrhachium (modern-day Albania), and was originally a high-ranking official in the Byzantine civil service before ...

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense ...