At the height of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople was the jewel of the Christian world, a city of breathtaking palaces, sprawling forums, and magnificent churches like Hagia Sophia. Its walls had ...

We take a look at the unexpected places the Vikings reached, and what remnants of their visits you can still see today.

The Greeks of Cappadocia, in central-eastern Anatolia, created their own flourishing culture in ancient times that thrived in the region for millennia. However, the Great Catastrophe of Smyrna and ...

Digenes Akritas is an epic poem from the Byzantine Empire. It follows the exploits of the titular hero in the Byzantine borderlands.

The Battle of Tricamarum (533 AD) led to the collapse of the Vandal Kingdom. It pitted the Byzantine Empire, under its able general Belisarius, against the illustrious Vandal Kingdom, under King ...

The US researchers have discovered the first Mediterranean mass grave of the world’s first proven pandemic, the plague of Justinian , that killed millions of people in the Byzantine ...

Researchers believe this discovery provides a unique and important opportunity to understand the impact of one of the world's ...

Violence is not a Jewish invention, nor is it unique to the Middle East. War is a constant of human history, regardless of ...

Turkey has been in the news in recent weeks for a role it knows well: peacemaker. As tensions simmer between the United States and Iran, Turkey has attempted to bring U.S. and Iranian officials to the ...

An ancient skyscraper considered the seventh wonder of the world crumbled to ruin centuries ago. Now an ambitious ...

Holding company claims that resolutions to oust leadership at shareholder meeting had not been ‘validly’ passed ...

Cultural heritage authorities have designated legal boundaries and a protected zone for the historical site of Batvand in ...