In the article dedicated to the Mardaites, the Christian highlanders who maintained their autonomy between Byzantium and the Caliphate, we mentioned the Akritai (or Akritoi), a group of light infantry ...

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 ...

The historian Moshe Sharon demonstrated in 2002 that the detailed descriptions of the battles of the Islamic conquests provided by Islamic historians such as Baladhuri, Waqidi, and Tabari (notably the ...

New research suggests Sutton Hoo burial mounds in Suffolk may have contained Byzantine soldiers rather than Anglo-Saxon royalty, a groundbreaking study by an Oxford University academic has revealed.

The famous helmet from the ship burial at Sutton Hoo in England may be evidence that Anglo-Saxon warriors fought as mercenaries for the Byzantine Empire ... worn by some soldiers in the Byzantine ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions, which were without equal in their training, discipline and fighting ability. By the time ...

It conquered a huge empire that stretched from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The soldiers were the best trained, they had the best weapons and the best armour. When the Romans invaded ...

During the Byzantine period, Jerusalem blossomed into a major religious hub, attracting worshipers from across the Roman Empire. Monasteries served not only as spiritual centers but also as ...

The Theodosian Walls protected Constantinople for just over ten centuries until the city fell to the Ottomans in 1453. Yet, the wall survived both the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, with sections of ...