In 1204, crusaders from Western Europe stormed Constantinople, looting one of the richest cities of the medieval world. This documentary explores whether the Fourth Crusade was truly the decisive ...

A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled across a surprise: the remains of an underground Byzantine tomb complex ...

Commonly known as the Byzantine Empire, ... became the fourth Rome. Within fifty years ... feudal, theocratic empire of little value. The Crusade of 1204—after which Constantinople never really ...

The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453, when Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) ... but the sack and destruction by the members of the Fourth Crusade led by the Venetians in 1204.

Conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204. Credit: David Aubert, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. The Fourth Crusade against Constantinople in 1204 is seen as one of the most crucial ...

THE FOURTH CRUSADE. Share full article. Nov. 23, 1885. ... and to German scholars that we are indebted for a better acquaintance with the history of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, ...

The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was one of the most powerful and enduring civilisations in world history. It began in AD 330 when the Roman Emperor Constantine I declared ...

1,500-year-old gold coins from Byzantine Empire discovered in medieval dwelling in Bulgaria. ... and archaeologists have so far found the remains of a large fourth to third century B.C. settlement ...

The fall of the Byzantine capital of Constantinople to the Latin West in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade abruptly interrupted nearly nine hundred years of artistic and cultural ... Glory of Byzantium,» ...