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

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 ...

Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, is a Greek name, too, deriving from the Greek phrase "Is tin poli," meaning "to the city." ...

The 2025-26 recipients of the highly prestigious Rome Prize were announced Wednesday by the American Academy in Rome. The Rome Prize is awarded annually to American artists and scholars for ...

Even if only about a dozen survived, they manage to give us an interesting insight into the technological ambitions and cultural habits of Rome’s educated élite ... are a reflection of the owner’s ...

The stories aren’t road maps to the future ... Lin finds a possible precursor to Trump in Julian the Apostate, emperor of Rome from 361 to 363 CE. Playing to a nostalgia for the earlier Pax ...

Constantinople (now Istanbul) - often dubbed 'the second Rome'. Prior to the investigation, apart from the cathedral itself, there was physical evidence for just two major structures on the site.

Note, however, that the Sea is called Mare Internum, “Inner Sea,” on this map. Credit: Wikimedia ... due to their roles in shipping wheat to Rome, and later to Constantinople from the 4th century ...

The map was created using genuine data and explores the idiom "All roads lead to Rome," its makers say. However ... What's False It's more accurately described as a "data visualization" or ...

ROME — A marble map of ancient Rome, that hasn't been put on public view for almost 100 years, is getting its very own museum within sight of the Colosseum. The Museum of the Forma Urbis ...