The New Mosque is backdropped by Istanbul's skyline and the Bosporus, Thursday, July 9, 2015. It's the former seat of the opulent Byzantine and Ottoman empires and is divided into European and Asian ...

This video presents a hypothetical scenario exploring the geopolitical consequences if the Byzantine Empire were to be ...

Led by Fatih Sultan Mehmet at the age of 21, the conquest transformed Constantinople into the Ottoman capital, ushering in a new era of political, ...

During his reign, Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos was transfixed with a strange prophecy concerning the survival of his ...

Throughout years of war, invasion and political strife, the rise of empires has not only shaped the course of human history ...

The Seljuk Turks defeated the Byzantine army in 1071 Manzikert Battle and opened up Anatolia for Turkish rule. This is how ...

From Charlottesville to the Capitol, medieval imagery has been repeatedly on show at far-right rallies and riots in recent years. But amid all the expected Viking imagery and nods to the Crusaders has ...

Researchers from the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam discovered that Byzantine bullion fueled Europe’s revolutionary adoption of silver coins in the mid-7th century, ...