The Byzantine origins of Britain’s older silver coins illuminate the interdependent trading networks that drove medieval economies in Europe. As Naismith tells the Guardian, the study “shows ...

Excavations of an ancient Byzantine shipwreck off the coast of Fournoi near Samos, Greece are bringing new finds onto the ...

Byzantium, early Byzantine period, 5th-6th century. Gold ... and this volume acknowledges the debt that generations of scholars in medieval studies owe to him. This festschrift highlights Dr. Hughes’s ...

The medieval astronomical instrument comes from the 11th-century Al-Andalus region, which is now modern-day Spain. The ...

as well as evidence of habitation from the fourth to sixth centuries A.D., when the area was part of the Byzantine Empire. During a recent expedition, archaeologists excavated a medieval dwelling ...

On the outskirts of Stari Ras, the first capital of Serbia, there is an impressive group of medieval monuments consisting of fortresses, churches and monasteries. The monastery at Sopoćani is a ...

In the article dedicated to the Mardaites, the Christian highlanders who maintained their autonomy between Byzantium and the Caliphate, we mentioned the Akritai (or Akritoi), a group of light infantry ...