This episode begins season two of the animated documentary series on the rise of the Ottoman Empire. After conquering ...

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 ...

In the words of an anonymous Church hierarch in Turkey fearful for the life of his flock, Christians in Turkey are an endangered species. The siege of Constantinople continues today, 560 years after ...

Taking a look at the most spectacular flops in the history of the world. 1453: During the siege of Constantinople, the entrenched Byzantines leave a gate unlocked, allowing the invading Turks to ...

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

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...