Evans has worked for the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1991 and was co-curator along with William D. Wixom of its 1997 exhibition, The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era.
The empire ended at roughly the same moment that Columbus found the New World.
When we do an exhibition like Interwoven Globe at the Met, it starts at 1500 and we don't look at the fact that Byzantium was on one of the great trade routes of the previous millennium and a half—or several millennia in fact.
...When most academic scholarship really begins, Byzantium has been subsumed in the Ottoman Empire.
[2] In 2019 Helen C. Evans was awarded by Friendship Order by the president of Armenia for representing the Armenian Culture to the World in a distinguished way, as well as for the significant contribution to the strengthening and development of the Armenian-American friendly relations.