Security guards at Hagia Sophia stopped a fire attempt, an incident raising concerns over the safety of the 1,500‑year‑old ...

The final hours of Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Byzantine Emperor and the powerful legend of the 'Marble Emperor.' ...

Amid the constant military campaigns, there was also the “Plague of Justinian,” one of history’s worst pandemics, that ...

Built as a church and repurposed during its 1,500‑year history as a mosque, a museum and now a mosque once more, the Hagia ...

Coining the word “genocide” from the Greek word genos (race, tribe) and the Latin root of cide (killing), Lemkin ushered in a ...

In 1453, Sultan Mehmed II conquered Constantinople, extinguishing the last vestige of the Byzantine Empire and making the ancient city his capital.

Dracula Untold follows Vlad Dracula (Luke Evans), the Prince of Wallachia and Transylvania, who earns a reputation as the Impaler, Son of the Dragon, for being their most feared warrior. However, he ...

Even the admirer of Mehmed II and chronicler of the fall, Michael Critobulus, influenced by Thucydides, compares Constantine XI’s leadership qualities with those of Pericles, despite not citing ...

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 ...

On May 29, 1453, Constantinople, the magnificent capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II. This date marks one of the most pivotal moments in world history, ...

A little later, the Foreign Ministry in Athens came out with a “diplomatic comment” saying they will wait the official court decision. History plays a joke It is a historic Irony that the court ...

President Donald Trump announced plans on Thursday to designate May 8 as World War II "Victory Day" and Nov. 11 as World War I "Victory Day," stating that the U.S. did a lot to win both wars.