The Via Egnatia was an ancient Roman road that ran from the Adriatic Sea to Byzantium, connecting northern ancient Greek ...

Byzantine Sea Power from Late Antiquity to the High Middle Ages . Following the defeat of the Cilician pirates by Pompey “the Great” in 66 BCE, Rome faced no serious threat to ...

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 ...

When the Western Roman Empire fell, its navy disappeared with it. But in the East, Roman naval power did not vanish. It ...

In A.D. 286 the Roman emperor Diocletian split in half the huge Roman Empire administratively — and peacefully — under the control of two emperors. A Western empire included much of modern-day Western ...

In A.D. 286, Roman emperor Diocletian split in half the huge Roman Empire administratively and peacefully under the control of two emperors. A western empire included much of modern-day western Europe ...

Archeologists have been busy over the last few months as they dig up more relics from the Eastern Roman Empire in Egypt, ...

In A.D. 286 the Roman emperor Diocletian split in half the huge Roman Empire administratively -- and peacefully -- under the control of two emperors. A Western empire included much of modern-day ...

In A.D. 286 the Roman emperor Diocletian split in half the huge Roman Empire administratively – and peacefully – under the control of two emperors. A Western empire included much of modern-day Western ...