The Siege of 1453 The Siege of 1453 was a defining moment for Constantinople and the world. The city, once considered ...

Anicia Juliana was a Byzantine woman who managed to conquer the fields of architecture, using her massive wealth and noble lineage.

When you think of Byzantine emperors, you don’t necessarily think of flying thrones, machines and automations, do you?

Amazing stories behind the world's most historic cities where every pavement, every monument, every corner has an incredible ...

In 603, the new Persian emperor, Khosrow II, seizing on a palace coup in Constantinople as a pretext, launches a full-scale invasion of the Byzantine Empire. For twenty-five years, a relentless ...

Trains move past industrial facilities in Kryvyi Rih, in eastern Ukraine, where Zelenskyy grew up [FILE: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo] From Ukraine’s ‘Mars’ to the presidential palace Many of ...

Assassin’s Creed Shadows may be the latest game in the long-running series, but its feudal Japan setting places it at the ...

During a diplomatic visit to Constantinople (Istanbul ... Yet, nothing initially destined this Topkapi Palace school graduate for such a glorious fate. During the final years of his father Selim I’s ...

Once known as Constantinople, it stands as a testament to the melding ... the glittering lights of the city’s European and Asian shores. Visit the Topkapi Palace, the opulent seat of the Ottoman ...

In June 325, in the imperial palace of Nicaea (in present-day northwestern Turkey ... In the East, where Constantine founded his new capital, Constantinople, Christianity was more established than in ...