A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled ...

On May 29, 1453, as dawn broke over the ancient walls of Constantinople, the thousand-year-old dream of a Roman Empire breathing through Christian lungs came to a shattering fall. Sultan Mehmed II’s ...

The “Alosis” (Ἅλωσις) — the capture — of Constantinople was not just the fall of a city but the collapse of a civilization, a bastion of Orthodox Christianity, Hellenic culture, and Roman law. Its ...

After conquering Constantinople in 1453, the Ottomans began reshaping the city into their imperial capital while expanding further into Europe. This video traces the aftermath of the conquest ...

I disagree. There has to be one. There’s always more when it comes to the biggest game launch since the fall of Constantinople invented the RTS genre. Besides, GTA 5 had three protagonists ...

The current Hagia Sophia was built in the 6th century when Constantinople — as Istanbul ... In his book “The Fall of the Roman Empire, A New History of Rome and the Barbarians,” historian ...

From grades and analysis to quotes from the players and team ... and if you met the kid in person, you fall in love with him, the character, the human, what he meant to that Georgia football ...

Wilson’s performance of “Lord Randall”—a ballad from the 1500s later adapted by Bob Dylan for “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall”—changed ... a tiny kitchen, quotes from The Rubaiyat ...

The location of Nicaea itself—in Asia Minor, only 40 miles from Byzantium, which would become Constantinople and ... this year and in 2028 it will fall on the same day in almost every Christian ...

This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the story of the Great Siege of 1453. When histories greatest ...

Jacobin clubs popped up in places as far from Paris as Constantinople and Aleppo ... of the anthropologist and theorist of nationalism Benedict Anderson, whom Storm quotes. Certainly, there was a lot ...

The fall of Constantinople in 1453 significantly reduced land-based trade between Europe and Asia. Still, regional trade between Central Asia and Persia and the South Caucasus continued until it ...