During his reign, Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos was transfixed with a strange prophecy concerning the survival of his ...

It dates to the 15th-century fall of the great empire and offers a vision of the man painted according to his likeness.

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions ...

The history and characteristics of the unique surviving portrait of the last byzantine emperor, Constantine Palaiologos, ...

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions ...

The riches of the Byzantine Empire were coveted by many from the Vikings in the northwest to the Arabs in the southeast.

Constantine XI Palaiologos's rule as Byzantine Emperor was brief, and his death coincided with the fall of Constantinople.

ArtNet News reports that a portrait of the Byzantine emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos was discovered during restoration ...

The figure is described as an "earthly figure, a mature man with a thin face and individualized features, who exudes ...

During their restoration, Dr. Anastasia Koumousi, Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Achaia, identified in the second ...

An exceptional discovery has brought to light the only known contemporary representation of the last emperor of the Byzantine ...

Work attributed to Panselinos, from the late 13th and early 14th centuries, is considered the finest produced in an empire ...