Many factors contributed to the survival of the Byzantine Empire. It had a good infrastructure system that ... protecting the Christian Orthodox Church, the Byzantine cities had plumbing which was ...

Asceticism is the practice of denial of physical or psychological desires in order to attain a spiritual ideal or goal, often ...

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 ...

The historic Church of Saints Theodoros, an emblematic 11th-century monument in the center of Athens, was officially ...

The Byzantine Empire made remarkable contributions to medicine and science, even thouth they are not widely known.

Just as ornaments hold immense value in Byzantine churches, contributing to a sacred atmosphere ... and symbolic representations reminiscent of the artistic traditions of the Byzantine Empire. These ...

Anicia Juliana was a Byzantine woman who managed to conquer the fields of architecture, using her massive wealth and noble lineage.

The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories ...