One of the most important shifts in history was the spread of Christianity by the Greeks from the Byzantine Empire into ...

As the Roman Empire fell into serious decline in the 5th century, there were several attempts to restore Roman power amid the ...

Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, is a Greek name, too, deriving from the Greek phrase "Is tin poli," meaning "to the city." ...

The 381 Council of Constantinople solidified Trinitarian doctrine, affirmed the Holy Spirit’s divinity, and reshaped the ...

Constantinople, the magnificent capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II ...

Documentary taking a look at the Fourth Crusade, one of the most widely-discussed episodes in Crusades history. In 1204, an ...

The true story of Byzantium's fall reveals a legacy betrayed by the West, misunderstood by the Left, and weaponised by the ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

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 ...

In an archaeological first, German researchers have found a depiction of major Assyrian deities carved onto a relief.