His team, equipped with diving gear, has spent the past decade slowly uncovering the history of the ship, whose wreckage lies ...

A Byzantine shipwreck off Croatia has yielded gold coins, an imperial ring, and luxury artifacts, suggesting the vessel ...

Gold jewellery found on board a wrecked Byzantine-era ship shows that one of the people on board was likely a high-ranking person, archaeologists say. The ship was discovered more than a decade ago ...

Before modern weapons of mass destruction, there was Greek fire (ignis graecus). This was the term medieval Crusaders applied ...

Archaeologists say that gold jewelry discovered on a Byzantine-era shipwreck off Croatia’s southern coast is providing new ...

The mud-brick village boasts streets, towers and a large church. Researchers unearthed everyday objects like grain grinders, ...

The finding was made during an excavation at the Harbor of Eleutherios, one of the ports of ancient Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Archaeologists discovered a pair of ...

From Charlottesville to the Capitol, medieval imagery has been repeatedly on show at far-right rallies and riots in recent years. But amid all the expected Viking imagery and nods to the Crusaders has ...

The palace dates back to they 14th century and served as the seat of the Despotate of Mystras, a province of the Byzantine Empire. It has been on UNESCO’s list since 1989. Greece has reopened the ...

Business dealings, personal letters and other traces of ordinary life.