For the Eastern Roman Empire -- known to us as "Byzantine" -- the Danube was a critical military and political frontier. In the disastrous seventh century this frontier was overwhelmed by invading ...

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In an era long before any concept of dignified treatment for defeated enemies, during a time when losing on the battlefield ...

Harvard University Press, 2008 . Pp. xv, 381 . Illus., map, diagr., notes, biblio., index . $19.95 paper. ISBN:0884023397 Originally published in hard cover over 20 years ago, Three Byzantine Military ...

Lebanon is described as an Arab country, and one that is failed and broken. But what most people don’t realize is, Lebanon is ...

It investigates conditions on the eve of those conquests, mistakes in Byzantine policy toward the Muslims, the course of the military campaigns, and the problem of local official and civilian ...

The Byzantine Empire utilises the same military concept that was later on imitated in Western and Central Europe. Different peoples and states deployed cataphracts during their military engagements: ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 1,600-year-old Roman military structure during excavations in the ancient town of Hasankeyf, southeastern Türkiye, shedding new light on the region's ...

A skull which was discovered by anthropologists in the Paliokastro area of Thasos shows signs of complicated surgery, ...

Archaeologists discovered ancient gold coins in an unexpected location during a recent excavation in Bulgaria. The five Byzantine coins, which date back to the reign of Justinian the Great, were ...