Researchers from the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) have discovered an early Christian Basilica in Aquileia, Italy. The church flaunts a monumental ...

A mosaic depicting the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (left) decorates Ravenna’s Basilica of San Vitale (right). The monumental building was one of many constructed ...

“He was short with a good chest, a good nose, fair-skinned, curly haired, round-faced, handsome with receding hair, a florid complexion, with his hair and beard graying.” This description of emperor ...

The bathhouse, attached to what researchers identify as a Byzantine bishop's residence, represents far more than personal luxury. According to excavation director Assoc. Prof. Gökçen Kurtuluş Öztaşkın ...

Thanks to politics and the passage of time, grand monuments of the 1,000-year Byzantine Empire are easy to miss in the modern metropolis. Tourists take photographs in the Byzantine-era Chora Church, ...

The Western Roman Empire famously ended in A.D. 476 when its last emperor abdicated the throne. But the city of Rome continued on. So what happened to the "Eternal City" after it was no longer the ...

About a century before the fall of the Byzantine Empire — the eastern portion of the vast Roman Empire — signs of its impending doom were written in garbage. The researchers discovered that trash ...

An ancient, 1,500-year-old pile of trash has given archaeologists insight into the downfall of the Byzantine Empire. To uncover what may have contributed to the decline of the Byzantine Empire, ...

A contractor in Syria discovered an ancient underground Byzantine tomb complex believed to be 1,500 years old below a destroyed home. The grave site was found last month in the town of Maarat al-Numan ...