Constantinople fell, and Emperor Constantine XI’s sacrifice marked the end of an era and a legacy of faith and defiance.

Life-sized statues of superheroes like Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange and Thor greet visitors to the new Heroes Museum & Gallery ...

This raucous meeting, which took place exactly 1700 years ago, was one of the most important in Christian history.

Byzantine Empress Theodora, would become an actress, prostitute, mistress, feminist, empress of the civilized world, and ...

Turkey is located near two fault lines, leaving the 1,500-year-old structure vulnerable to damage. Architects and engineers ...

New book chronicles the impact Turkish coffee has exercised on the way of life in both Europe and the Middle East. SHARJAH, ...

Discover how Arabian scents are captivating global markets, challenging legacy brands with unique notes and rich storytelling ...

From ancestral silence to historical reckoning, this is a meditation on exile, memory, and the letters that time forgot.

The story of this ancient international heist reveals much about the ancient economies of both ancient Rome and China.

Andrea Marcolongo, writer and political consultant, spent a night at the Acropolis Museum and wrote about her experience in a ...

Historian Faith Tibble examines the origin of one of the most famous images in the Christian world and how it changed over ...

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 ...