In early 2025, photographer Paul Clemence documented Kö-Bogen II, a commercial and office complex designed by ingenhoven ...

As specialists cleaned and studied the rooms in the Apostolic Palace, they learned new information about the Renaissance ...

The Vatican Museums have unveiled its newly restored Hall of Constantine, one of its Raphael Rooms, including two newly ...

Ruins of the Palaspata temple complex from the millennia-old Tiwanaku civilization are unraveling some mysteries about the ...

If Jesus trusts us, then we too can trust one another, in his name,” Pope Leo XIV said, extending his call to unity to all ...

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

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling state-level crime that saw up to 1.2 million Armenians killed in 1915 and 1916. In ...

Historians have chosen the year of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, 1453, as a reference point to mark the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Age. The capital of the ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a ...

Lack of space prevents our detailing in this notice the interesting features of the other fortifications of the city, the seaward walls, the walls along the Golden Horn and sea of Marmora, or the ...

Restored section of the Theodosian Walls at the Selymbria Gate. Credit: Bigdaddy1204 / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons As the wealthy capital of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, Constantinople ...