Empress Irene of Athens, a pivotal figure in Byzantine history, navigated a world of political intrigue and religious ...

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Coin featuring Roman Empress Irene of Athens (left) and her son Constantine VI ... Roman/Byzantine history. From a historical point of view, her impact on religious practices within the empire was ...

If we stick to the letter and claim that strategy only existed once the word “strategy” was used, we must exclude all of Ancient History and all of Western European history before the late 18 th ...

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Who was Byzas, the legendary Greek founder of the city of Byzantium? This article examines where he was from, what he did, ...

This myth is sometimes expanded to include Emperor Constantine as some driving political force behind the formation of the canon. This, in actuality, is almost certainly a fable. Dive into the ...

Games for Change said Leo Olebe will be the new chair of the board of directors for the nonprofit dedicated to social impact games and media. Olebe will still be vice president of global ...

Gang of Four confirmed that Ted Leo and Belly and L7’s Gail Greenwood will join original drummer Hugo Burnham and singer Jon King on the English post-punk outfit’s upcoming farewell tour.

Historians record that the unified Roman Empire was ruled by 69 emperors between the first emperor Augustus (who reigned from 27 B.C. to A.D. 14) and Theodosius (ruled from A.D. 379 to 395), but ...

Photos / supplied The Mongol Chinese emperor Kublai Khan was immortalised by English poet Samuel Coleridge’s opium-fuelled descriptions of the “pleasure dome” at Xanadu, the imperial summer ...