On the Conquest of Constantinople is one of the most important historical sources on the Fourth Crusade and the Sack of ...

Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...

The complex also included a large warehouse and winepress Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient ... Byzantine capital was founded in his name: Constantinople ...

Conservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a previously unknown portrait of the last emperor of Byzantine ... dubbed the last Christian ruler of Constantinople, showing his true likeness ...