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

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

Emperor Constantine XI fought to the end as Constantinople fell to the Ottomans on May 29, 1453, marking the collapse of the Byzantine Empire ... it is about how a city that fell still lives, not in ...

What happened after the Ottomans took Constantinople in 1453? In this new season of Kings and Generals’ Ottoman Empire documentary, we explore the transformation of the former Byzantine capital into ...

The team used maps and field surveys to identify the site ... which dates all the way back to the Byzantine Empire. And researchers might have just found it. Starting in 2021, a research team ...

The Byzantine Empire, which began in the 4th century AD, was a continuation of the Roman empire with its capital in Constantinople – today's Istanbul – and Christianity as its official religion.

A contractor found a tomb complex dating back to the Byzantine Empire in Syria's Idlib province, just as many residents have ...

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 the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Age. The capital of the ...

The Byzantine Empire, which began in the 4th century AD, was a continuation of the Roman empire with its capital in Constantinople — today’s Istanbul — and Christianity as its official religion.

The Byzantine Empire, which began in the 4th century AD, was a continuation of the Roman empire with its capital in Constantinople – today's Istanbul – and Christianity as its official religion.