This scenario represents a fundamental challenge in computer science known as Byzantine Fault Tolerance. Derived from the Byzantine Generals Problem, it highlights difficulties decentralized ...
Winner of the Council of Europe's Museum Prize in 2005, the Museum of Byzantine Culture beautifully displays regional artifacts that concern the ancient empire. Everyday objects and artwork that ...
An ancient Byzantine church in Aquileia, Italy, linked to Emperor Justinian’s reign. Credit: Alecobbe / Public Domain Archaeologists have uncovered an early Christian church in the ancient Roman city ...
On the side of the coin on the left is the bust of a man facing front, with a large cross behind him, wearing a beard, draped in loose fitting clothing, right hand raised with index and middle finger ...
The array of portable, sumptuous Byzantine objects, including rare sixth-century ecclesiastical silver, is one of the world’s finest. That same year the Blisses gave the property, collections ...
These diverse monetary objects, along with the others in this display, reflect Ukraine’s distinct history over the last millennia. During the 11th and 12th centuries, Kyiv was the capital of a ...
“We are closer to the Quattrocento mind,” he wrote, “than to the Byzantine, for instance”. Fifty years later, Byzantium and the art it produced are still misunderstood, when not unknow ...