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 t ...

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Rather than wiping out local deities, they folded them into the Hittite Empire and pantheon. Holy statues from temples, thought to embody the gods themselves, were transported to Hattuşa’s ...

As Roman power and territory expanded ... The sea god Neptune, a key deity for an empire circling the Mediterranean, is portrayed spearing a sea monster in a marble statue. The Romans are famed ...

From 500 BCE on, the Roman Empire extended its territory across parts of Europe and North Africa until its frontier totaled some 7,500 kilometres by the 2nd century. The Romanian segment, the Dacian ...

Night - Mostly clear. Winds WSW at 9 to 11 mph (14.5 to 17.7 kph). The overnight low will be 52 °F (11.1 °C). Partly cloudy with a high of 74 °F (23.3 °C). Winds variable at 6 to 11 mph (9.7 ...