On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years ...

During the 15th and 16th centuries, a wave of Greek Byzantine scholars arrived in Italy where they contributed tremendously ...

Michael III, the "Alcoholic" Byzantine Emperor, ruled surprisingly well despite his controversial behavior and personal ...

Marshall Rauch, a Jewish Gaston County politician who once was the largest Christmas ornament maker in the world died March 18. He was 102. Rauch was renowned for Gastonia-based Rauch Industries ...

By Sam Roberts Anthony R. Dolan, who as Ronald Reagan’s chief speechwriter deployed the phrase “evil empire” in 1983 to describe the Soviet Union and in another address consigned Marxism and ...

None of his recent films are as strange and bewildering as “The Empire,” a science-fiction epic, where the action is split between a galactic void and the Opal coast in Northern France. After the ...

In Bruno Dumont’s sci-fi farce, an alien conflict disrupts a sleepy French village. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn ...

Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora were the 6th Century golden couple of the Byzantine Empire. Think Jay-Z and Beyonce - but with a lot more chariots. Script and narration by Emma Nagouse ...

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense ...