Curated Video
The Imperial Library of Constantinople and its Famous Disappearance
The Imperial Library of Constantinople, once held over a hundred thousand manuscripts. It survived nearly a millennium before its supposed destruction by Norman Crusaders in 1204. Despite this, rumors persist that the library was...
Jack Rackam
He Killed his Friends Just Because He Could | The Life & Times of Basil the Macedonian
He Killed his Friends Just Because He Could | The Life & Times of Basil the Macedonian
Jack Rackam
The Life & Times of Belisarius (History Abridged)
After the end of the Western Roman Empire, the story in the East is more or less a thousand years of “Well they tried their best but the climate screwed them, people kept dying of plague, every single one of their neighbors made a...
Curated Video
The Final Days of Constantinople | The Life & Times of Constantine XI
I didn’t want to make this video, for a long time. Not because Constantine XI is some drab old king bogged down in meaningless politics, of course, but because I was honestly afraid that I wouldn’t be able to do this story justice,...
Jabzy
How to Survive in Byzantine Constantinople? : Life in the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine Daily Life
How to Survive in Byzantine Constantinople? : Life in the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine Daily Life
Jabzy
What was Byzantine Constantinople like? | Byzantine Empire, Hagia Sophia, Constantinople History
What was Byzantine Constantinople like? | Byzantine Empire, Hagia Sophia, Constantinople History
Jabzy
Russian Plans to Bring Back the Byzantine Empire | Constantinople, Catherine the Great
Russian Plans to Bring Back the Byzantine Empire | Constantinople, Catherine the Great