The Byzantine Empire maintained an intriguing relationship with ancient China, thus sending ambassadors there.

The vast number of surviving Byzantine coins attests to the level of trade across the empire. Controlled and supervised by the emperor, the producers of coins took care to represent his authority and ...

Conservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a previously unknown portrait of the last emperor of Byzantine, Constantine XI Palaiologos (Feb. 8 1404 – May 29 1453), dubbed the last ...