A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled ...

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Historians have chosen the year of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, 1453, as a reference point to mark the end of ...

Documentary taking a look at the Fourth Crusade, one of the most widely-discussed episodes in Crusades history. In 1204, an army of Venetians and Frankish knights captured and sacked Constantinople, ...

Constantinople, the citadel of Byzantine cultural ... feudal, theocratic empire of little value. The Crusade of 1204—after which Constantinople never really recovered—is a good starting ...

The conquest of Constantinople caused shockwaves throughout Europe. While the Byzantine Empire had been a shadow of its former self for centuries, the loss represented a final end to the Roman ...

នគរធំ [nɔkɔː tʰom]), is located in present-day Cambodia and was the final and longest-lasting capital of the Khmer Empire. Founded in the late 12th century by King Jayavarman VII ...

It's an example of Byzantine craft – referring to the Byzantine Empire, the powerful civilization based at Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul). It is thought to have been made several ...

who wanted to use a sea route that would enhance his own maritime involvement coming via Genoa - and perhaps act to the detriment of his Byzantine rival. The Second Crusade therefore got going with ...

The Hinduja family, led by industrialist Gopichand Hinduja, has once again claimed the top spot in the Sunday Times Rich List 2025, marking their fourth straight year as ... their business empire ...