Helen Gittos, a professor of medieval history at Oxford University, in the U.K., has developed a new theory regarding the ...

For years, it was believed that royals could have been buried at the famous site - but a leading academic has another theory ...

Sutton Hoo burials may have been British soldiers who fought in Byzantine army - For years, it was believed that royals could ...

The First Crusade was one of the most extraordinary, bloody and significant episodes in medieval history. It began with an appeal for aid from the Christian Byzantine Empire, threatened by the rising ...

One of the most amazing accomplishments of Byzantine monasteries was the miraculous preservation of ancient Greek treasures of wisdom.

Ever since the Sutton Hoo burial ship was discovered by Basil Brown in 1939 many historians have been convinced that the body found in it was Raedwald - who reigned from 599 until his death 25 years ...

Born around 530 AD into an aristocratic family in Constantinople, Empress Sophia rose to prominence upon her marriage to ...

Monemvasia, on the southeastern shores of the Peloponnese, Greece is Europe's oldest continuously inhabited castle town.

Situated in the heart of Turkey’s Pontic Mountains, the Panagia Sumela Monastery, often referred to as the “Monastery on the ...

Exiting Earth's gravity takes an enormous amount of fuel and power. Due to this, spacecraft strapped to rockets are limited ...