An extraordinary discovery of a Roman pot was made at the Drumanagh promontory fort in Ireland, the first ever found. The unbelievable apparition of a Roman pot at Drumanagh in County Dublin left ...

Located near Auxerre, the grand estate once possessed an exorbitant level of wealth, with thermal baths and heated floors ...

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

Greece dismissed Turkey's criticism over a map presented as a gift to Patriarch Bartholomew, saying the gift was "purely ...

Constantinople. The City of the World’s Desire. The largest city in Christendom for nearly a thousand years. Surprisingly few remember this grand city, capital of two of history’s greatest empires: ...

This is the twentieth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe, Turkey, and the Near East to Georgia and ...

On May 29, 1453, as dawn broke over the ancient walls of Constantinople, the thousand-year-old dream of a Roman Empire breathing through Christian ... Further, it is about how a city that fell still ...

Historian Richard J.A. Talbert, who published a fascinating study of these instruments in Roman Portable Sundials: The Empire in Your Hand, explains that the latitude lists inscribed on the sundials ...

In the worst, it faces the fall of the Roman Empire. As it was for Rome, so too will it be for America — unless, they suggest, we learn the lessons of history. Whether they focus on the fall of ...

A key point: had there been mutual assistance between Rome and Constantinople at the end of the 5th century, Rome might not have fallen to the barbarians. The Eastern Roman Empire (shown in yellow ...

Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons In the early 4th century AD, the newborn Eastern Roman ... toward Constantinople, crossing the Bosporus and dividing their forces to occupy Chalcedon and ...