What happened after the Ottomans took Constantinople in 1453? In this new season of Kings and Generals’ Ottoman Empire documentary, we explore the transformation of the former Byzantine capital into ...

A contractor found a tomb complex dating back to the Byzantine Empire in Syria's Idlib province, just as many residents have started returning to their homes following the fall of Assad.

When the Ottomans, led by Sultan Mehmed II, captured Constantinople on May 29, 1453, bringing an end to the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantine Empire, they virtually controlled all the territories that ...

Then I entered an entirely new and exotic realm — the eastern Roman Empire, a dominion that survived the fall of Rome in 476 by almost a thousand years. The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453 ...

A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled across a surprise: the remains of an underground Byzantine tomb complex ...

Constantine XI Palaiologos ruled the Byzantine Empire for a short period between January 6, 1449 and May 29, 1453, dying in battle during the fall of Constantinople, when the capital was captured ...

While many date the collapse of the Roman Empire to the fifth century, in reality it didn't fall until AD 1453. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that sheds light on a little-known ice age that may have contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire. "Unusual rocks," discovered in Iceland, are believed to ...