The Byzantine Empire was one of the first societies to offer its citizens some form of what we now call universal healthcare.

In the province of Hatay, in southern Turkey, there is a mountain range locally known as Nur Dağları. Arabs call it Jabal al-Lukkam, and in Spanish, its Greek name, Amanus, has been adopted. It spans ...

The transformation of the Roman Empire into what modern historians call Byzantium was not a single event but a gradual ...

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, says ...

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 ...

Hagia Sophia’s conversion from a museum into a mosque has seen thousands and thousands of words committed to the page across the globe. Most of it recycles the same information - that the great church ...