An elderly woman selling Eastern Orthodox icons from her shop on the Mount Athos border looks concerned on hearing that we come from Britain. ‘How is Carlos?’ she says. ‘He needs to come here as soon ...

Most people are aware of the song “Istanbul was Constantinople” and perhaps none better than the Greeks of Istanbul. Although at the turn of the 20th century they numbered hundreds of thousands, there ...

Abstract: In recent years, blockchain technology, which enables transactions to be distributed across multiple computers and managed in an immutable and secure manner, has garnered significant ...

Archaeologists found 97 gold coins and jewelry in Susita, revealing life during the Sassanid invasions. The obverse of a gold coin showing the portrait of Emperor Heraclius (610–613 CE).

The cheirosiphōn (“hand-siphōn”), a portable flamethrower spewing Greek Fire, a Byzantine invention, used from atop a flying bridge against a castle. Public Domain The Byzantine Empire has made ...

The seventh century was a vital point in the history of the Byzantine army. Since the beginning of the century, territory in the Balkans had steadily been lost to Avars and Slavs. Byzantine forces had ...

Abstract: Federated learning is a collaborative machine learning framework where a global model is trained by different organizations under the privacy restrictions. Promising as it is, privacy and ...

Liberal Arts at Queen's is a unique, exciting and challenging programme that allows students to immerse themselves in subjects that are vital to understanding our twenty-first- century world. Through ...