On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years ...

Constantinople, has assembled the results of several years of careful study of the historical sites of Roman Constantinople, a city which occupied a most important position in the history of the ...

What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?

The Byzantine Emperor Justinian I came close to uniting the former Roman Empire less than a century after its fall. However, ...

Byzantine-era monuments in Istanbul, Turkey, formerly the Byzantine capital city known as Constantinople, are being covered ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Everybody may know the name “Attila the Hun,” but nobody knows where he’s buried. Finding him ...

A group of Roman re-enactors. The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world. It conquered a huge empire that stretched from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The ...

474-491), British classicist Crawford, a specialist in Late Antiquity, uses the life of the man to help examine the convoluted history of the Roman Empire in the Fifth ... of whom actually managed to ...

Like much of Roman society, it was highly structured but also logical and, in some ways, even modern. Marriage in Roman times was often not at all romantic. Rather, it was an agreement between ...

in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) and the Piscina Mirabilis in Miseno, Italy. The latter, built to provide drinking water to the Roman navy in the Bay of Naples, had a capacity of just ...

Although their lives may have been different, they did have some things in common. In any Roman family life, the head of the household was a man. Although his wife looked after the household ...

A group of Roman re-enactors. The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world. It conquered a huge empire that stretched from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The ...