The winding streets of old Istanbul are an overlapping cacophony of seagulls, ship horns and vendors of colorful fresh fruit. Shady fig trees cluster near crumbling Byzantine walls and sweeping ...

WE have received from the Ordnance Survey the Aberdeen sheet of the International Map of the Roman Empire on the scale of 1 to 1,000,000. The sheet covers the greater part of Scotland north of the ...

A large cemetery dating to the Roman–Byzantine period was exposed south of Tel Malḥata, in the northeastern Negev Desert. Most of the burials were cist graves, comprising an individual buried ...

The Roman Empire was remarkably industrious when it came to infrastructure, constructing more than 55,000 miles of paved roads across Europe and North Africa. It’s challenging to visualize the vast ...

A new map of the ancient Roman empire plots its major roads in a way that makes sense to modern city dwellers— a subway system. Basing the map off of 125 A.D, in the midst of Hadrian's reign, the map ...

Prof. Emeritus Walter Kaegi visited every province that had constituted the Roman Empire. He spoke Arabic, Armenian, French, German, Greek and Latin, and had a reading knowledge of several Slavic ...

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 ...

While many date the collapse of the Roman Empire to the fifth century, in reality it didn't fall until AD 1453. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Scientists are looking into a possible link. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- By examining the literal dustbins of history, archaeologists have now shed light on how a 125-year ...