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

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

For the Eastern Roman Empire -- known to us as "Byzantine" -- the Danube was a critical military and political frontier. In the disastrous seventh century this frontier was overwhelmed by invading ...

Foreign warriors recruited by the Byzantine Empire were initially given a suit ... Britons fought in Byzantine armies, although their military prowess — especially at fighting in woods ...

California officials denied—and tried to hide—the first plague epidemic that reached U.S. shores Sarah Holzmann Archaeologists think the tiles once lined a Byzantine-era monastery. The complex ...