"That he found a gold coin on a random trip in the mountains is completely surreal. This is unusual and exceptional. From ...

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 ...

Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.

the Eastern Roman Empire would last for another 1,000 years before it too fell. At its peak, the Byzantine Empire stretched from southern Spain to Syria, on to to modern-day Turkey and Greece ...