The Hagia Sophia remains a highly popular tourist destination, attracting millions of travelers. Here is a detailed look at ...

The Byzantine Emperor Justinian I came close to uniting the former Roman Empire less than a century after its fall. However, ...

Snake miniature, 14th century edition, from Marvels of Creation, by al-Qazwini As Islam expanded, the cities where Greek science had flourished came under ... of the emperor Justinian to close ...

Originally constructed as a Christian cathedral in the 6th century by Emperor Justinian, it became the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years. After the fall of the Byzantine ...

(Image: Courtesy Alexxx1979 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Originally, it was built as a church under the direction of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I ... Built during the Ottoman ...

George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

By Eve Sampson Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost ...

Christianity did not emerge in a single movement but was built gradually, marked by decisive stages: The prohibition of polytheistic cults by Emperor Justinian ... of the Byzantine Empire until ...