Belisarius mosaic. Credit: Petar Milošević. CC BY-4.0/Wikimedia Commons/Petar Milosevic Belisarius is the much underrated military commander of the Byzantine Empire who led the armies of Justinian I ...
He was a Byzantine emperor who reigned from 491 to 518 CE. Born around 430 CE in Dyrrhachium (modern-day Albania), and was originally a high-ranking official in the Byzantine civil service before ...
Built in the 12th century under Norman rule, it boasts Italy's largest Byzantine-style mosaics, second in the world only to those of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Now, this Unesco World Heritage site ...
A portrait of the final Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palailogos, has been discovered by archaeologists in Greece. The portrait was found on a mid-15th century fresco uncovered at a monastery ...
CNN looks at how fashion designer and artist, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, came up with the new look for the vestments to be worn inside Notre Dame since its reconstruction. Burt, beloved ...
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 ...