The transformation of the Roman Empire into what modern historians call Byzantium was not a single event but a gradual ...

Many people mistakenly think that the Eastern Roman Empire became the Byzantine Empire, but the truth is much more complex. In this video, we explain how the term "Byzantine" was actually coined ...

In 447 AD, Attila and his Huns crossed the Danube in force, tearing through the Balkans and confronting the Eastern Roman ...

The symbol of Western Civilization, the Acropolis' Parthenon was converted to a Christian church for almost a millennium, ...

An intact Roman villa discovered beneath a Welsh park sheds new light on South Wales’s largely unknown Romano-British past.

This epidemic was known as Plague of Justinian—it occurred between 541 and 750 A.D., and is one of the earliest known ...

At an emergency summit of European Union leaders in Brussels, the building blocks of a putative empire were beginning to take ...

This marks another milestone for Roman-period archaeology in Hesse: The German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Swiss National Science Foundation ...

The history of warfare isn't solely about weapons, but rather the tactics in use. See the surprising ones that changed ...

Historians have been reconstructing the long-lost story of two of British history's most mysterious artefacts - a pair of ...

Several years ago, construction work for a new school in Frankfurt led to a discovery of regional importance: a large Roman sanctuary. This was followed by extensive excavations carried out by ...

Winter needn’t be your off-season. There are magnificent hikes to be enjoyed on many of the continent’s coastlines and ...