When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had up to that point survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire at ...

The eastern Roman empire was founded by Constantine the Great on May 11, A.D. 330. The empire fell on May 29, 1453, when the army of the Ottoman sultan Mehmet II breached the walls of Constantinople.

When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had up to that point survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire at Rome.

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, $35, 498 pages Reviewed by Gary Anderson An Iranian empire trying to reassert lost glory, an Islamic jihad and tribal animosities in the Balkans; life is not ...

When we think about the early conquests of Islam, we imagine vast numbers of warriors riding camels across deserts, waving banners adorned with the crescent moon and Quranic verses. However, this ...

Silk fabric has been one of the most coveted goods ever since the days of the world's oldest civilizations. From its creation in Ancient China at least 8,500 years ago to today, the rich feeling of ...

The church was very small - only a little larger than a big garden shed. It had a domed, red-tiled roof and round arcaded windows. It lay quite alone in the rocky fields below the village, and was ...