Part of its allure is its sheer beauty, but its relative rarity in the Earth’s crust has also made gold one of the few prized ...

Türkiye has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on ...

The Byzantine Emperor Justinian I came close to uniting the former Roman Empire less than a century after its fall. However, ...