They found that 29 of the stash’s older coins (minted between 660 and 750) had isotopic signatures that matched that of third- to seventh-century silver from the Byzantine Empire. At its peak ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, the earlier coins, dating from AD 660-750, were made from silver mined in the eastern Mediterranean, in the Byzantine Empire. This vast and powerful civilization, lasting for over 1100 ...

Many factors contributed to the survival of the Byzantine Empire. It had a good infrastructure system that funneled agricultural supplies, and it had a good infrastructure system that funneled these ...