Through Google Earth’s lens, we retrace the dramatic Fall of Constantinople in 1453. In just one minute, we chart the city’s ...

In 1453, Constantinople was no longer the metropolis of Justinian. Its population had shrunk dramatically. Entire districts were fields. The Hippodrome lay in ruins. The Great Palace was largely ...

A deep dive into the Byzantine Empire’s overlooked legacy explores how Greek civilisation shaped medieval Europe, preserved ancient knowledge, influenced the Renaissance and helped define modern Greek ...

Corfu, together with the other Ionian islands , formed an autonomous state with its own flag and parliament (Ionian ...

On May 29, 1453, the ancient Roman city of Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks. Many historians consider the ...

MANILA, Philippines — For 10 years, news of a galleon museum located at a popular mall complex in Pasay City floated since the groundbreaking was held in 2014. For years, an imposing structure that ...

The Greek genocide and the Pontic genocide instigated by the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish national movement is a dark ...

Throughout years of war, invasion and political strife, the rise of empires has not only shaped the course of human history but has also caused empires to rise and fall; some empires fell soon after ...

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I ...

Part bathhouse, part social institution, the hammam has moved through centuries of Roman, Ottoman and Islamic history to ...

In Russia, omens have been given special importance since ancient times. They were used to judge the weather, when to sow and ...

The fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD was a pivotal moment in human history, when Germanic chieftain Odoacer deposed teenage emperor Romulus Augustulus in Italy and set in motion the collapse ...