The mystery of Greek fire continues to baffle historians millennia after its creation. Not only did the 7th-century weapon ...

Greek fire was a mysterious weapon that helped the mighty Byzantine Empire survive and ensure its vast sovereignty for ...

Archaeologists at the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia, recently began examining a rare 700-year-old ...

Constantinople’s win completed a wonderful night for McCarthy with four winners. In addition to Don Hugo, Dynamite Dan and Constantinople he was successful in the opening event with star three year ...

Even the Great Schism between the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches, a divide that sadly continues to this day, finds its roots in the distinct histories of the empires centered in Rome and ...

The current Hagia Sophia was built in the 6th century when Constantinople — as Istanbul was then called — was the heart of the Orthodox Christian Byzantine Empire that emerged as Ancient Rome ...

But not many acts sound quite like Constantinople, formed in 1988 by Canadian Iranian brothers Kiya and Ziya Tabassian and based in Montreal. Their lively, original take on such old, distant music ...

On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years old but determined to see through his father’s dream of capturing the ...

Constantinople: They turned the ancient 1,500-year-old cistern next to Hagia Sophia into a spa center (videos) Following the protests, the General Directorate of Cultural Assets and Museums filed ...

The portrait of the emperor is deemed realistic (not idealized) by experts at the Greek Ministry of Culture. | Courtesy Greek Ministry of Culture Conservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a ...

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