The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, which he founded in 1968, presented more than 50 of his plays, among them “My Head Was a Sledgehammer” and “Permanent Brain Damage.” By Anita Gates ...

Belisarius mosaic. Credit: Petar Milošević. CC BY-4.0/Wikimedia Commons/Petar Milosevic Belisarius is the much underrated military commander of the Byzantine Empire who led the armies of Justinian I ...

He was a Byzantine emperor who reigned from 491 to 518 CE ... Anastasius introduced several important reforms, including a new tax system, which helped stabilise the empire’s economy. His fiscal ...

This was truly a golden age of military strength and administrative brilliance that helped the Byzantine Empire shape the mediaeval Mediterranean world. Replica of a miniature of Emperor Basil II in ...

Built in the 12th century under Norman rule, it boasts Italy's largest Byzantine-style mosaics ... the capital of the surviving Roman empire in the east. They span over 6,400 sq m and contain ...

Former Rep. Jim Leach, an Iowa Republican who left Congress in 2007 and later spoke in support of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, died Dec.

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 ...