While the Old World magic in many parts of the city has been plowed over by modern affluence, today's Istanbul is every bit as rich and rewarding.

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

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

Dubrovnik has long been dubbed the “Pearl of the Adriatic,” and at first glance, it’s easy to see why. Enclosed within ...

One of the council's lasting legacies is the Nicene Creed, a profession of faith still recited by Christians of all big ...

Constantinople, the citadel of Byzantine ... We (we are all Romi) kept them outside the great city walls for months. The westerners were uncouth, largely illiterate, and extremist Christians ...

Constantinople, the magnificent capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II ...

Sultan Mehmed II was merely 21 when he started besieging Constantinople in April ... city and claim his divine inheritance. The city, drained by centuries of internal conflict, retained the mighty ...

A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been ...

Istanbul marked the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea, the groundbreaking gathering convened in 325 by ...

Severus restored Byzantium to the form and condition in which it existed as the immediate predecessor of Constantinople. The principal gate in the walls of the restored city stood at the extremity ...

Only a walk inside some of its churches will reveal the city’s stunning and colorful Byzantine mosaics! Ravenna, in ...