The story of Constantinople is a fascinating one that dates back millennia to when this mega-city was a small Greek town ...

Constantinople and the triple line of walls that were built over time. Credit: Jniemenmaa / Wikimedia Commons According to experts, what we know of that original wall is not due to Byzas but to the ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

Europe is home to some of the most breathtaking palaces in the world, each one built to showcase power, wealth, and royal ...

The City of Saints and doctrines, of Emperors and Patriarchs, the queen of cities, stood as the last bastion of Christendom in the East. Emperor Constantine XI PalaiologosRio, like another Leonidas, ...

The mausoleums and Tripolis Street in the north necropolis, the city walls from the south eastern Roman Gate to the travertine terraces, the Latrina located to the east of Domitian Gate, the ...

Between 378 and 718, Constantinople withstood more sieges than any city of its time—from Goths, Huns, Persians, Arabs, Russians, and others. Relations with the West rapidly deteriorated.

The City as vision: Prophecy, ideology, and the Megali Idea The fall of Constantinople, paradoxically, became a unifier. Despite regional identities, all Greeks looked to the City as a spiritual ...

In Aden at the same time, some saw “the connection with India as organic.” The city’s many Gujarati and Parsi residents thought Aden “was an integral part of the Indian nation”. In the 1940s, the ...

> Culture 572 years since the Fall of Constantinople – The life, reign, and tragic end of Constantine Palaiologos The end of Constantine Palaiologos How he became Emperor of Byzantium – The ...

Archeological excavations of Pompeii continue to shed light on the daily lives of ancient Romans.

Protestors who glued their hands to the wall of Fort Collins City Council chambers in 2024 have been ordered to pay more than $5,000 in restitution.