Imagine the walls that have soaked up 1600 years of history in one of Constantinople’s most important Byzantine monasteries, ...

The current Hagia Sophia was built in the 6th century when Constantinople — as Istanbul was then called — was the heart of ...

At the heart of Venice’s globally renowned St. Mark's Square sits Biblioteca Marciana, a library filled with the ghosts of a ...

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 Byzantine capital.

Many factors contributed to the survival of the Byzantine Empire. It had a good infrastructure system that funneled agricultural supplies, and it had a good infrastructure system that funneled these ...

The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453, when Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) was conquered by the Ottoman Turks. Through the past two centuries, fabled Byzantium was reduced to little more ...

For almost 1,000 years, it was a Christian basilica, the largest and most spectacular temple not just in Constantinople, but in the entire Byzantine Empire. "Hagia Sophia is simply unique ...

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 ...