Wooden notebook discovered in Byzantine ship at the Yenikapı excavations, Turkey

Yenikapı excavations that started nearly 10 years ago. A wooden notebook, which was found in a sunken ship is considered the Byzantines’ invention akin to the likes of the modern-day ‘tablet’. Continue reading “Wooden notebook discovered in Byzantine ship at the Yenikapı excavations, Turkey” →

April 26, 2018 0

10 Things You May Not Know About the Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) Empire

by Evan Andrews

476 A.D. is usually cited as the year that the Roman Empire came crashing down, but its eastern half lived on for another thousand years in the form of the Byzantine Empire, a mighty kingdom centered in Constantinople (modern day Istanbul). Continue reading “10 Things You May Not Know About the Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) Empire” →

February 7, 2018 0

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