Today in the year 1449, the last emperor of the Romans was crowned in the small town of Mystras in Greece, far away from the ...

Part documentary, part scripted drama, Rise of Empires: Ottoman doesn’t try to turn history into homework. Instead, it leans ...

Constantinople, a banking technology start-up founded by former Westpac executives and backed by major venture capital funds, is in discussions with potential investors about raising more money after ...

The historian Procopius described how a creature called Porphyrios terrified sixth-century sailors for 50 years. But what was it? A sixth-century Byzantine mosaic depicts an amphibious monster—though ...

The siege of Constantinople by the Avars in a fresco in the Romanian monastery of Moldovita. Credit: DimiTalen / Wikimedia Commons Although the most famous one was carried out by the Ottomans in 1453, ...

Constantinople stood against sieges and attacks for many centuries, until finally new technology—the big cannons of the Ottoman Empire—brought down the Byzantine Empire’s capital. The fall of ...

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 ...

Some time ago, we dedicated an article to explaining what the Nika riots were, a sporting brawl that turned into open rebellion against Emperor Justinian in sixth-century A.D. Constantinople. That ...

Screenwriter Goldin debuts with an overstuffed historical adventure set in London and Constantinople on the eve of the Crimean War. Ben Canaan is a disgruntled 21-year-old whose dreams of attending ...

Minecraft players have shown that the blocky world can be used to make history more interactive with talented builders recreating lost cities and historical places that can be explored. From ancient ...