Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law ...

This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the story of the Great Siege of 1453. When history's greatest fortification was ...

Eli Cohen, a Mossad spy caught operating under cover among the highest echelons in Syria, was hanged in Damascus. The ...

The country of Georgia is located in the southern Caucasus where Europe meets Asia. The region has often found itself at the ...

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Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

Emperor Constantine the Great. Credit: Flickr / Smabs Sputzer CC BY 2.0 Roman Emperor Constantine the Great officially declared Constantinople his “New Rome” and the capital of the Roman Empire on May ...

EXCLUSIVE: UK-based sales outfit Capture has added historical action epic Tamerlane: Rise Of The Last Conqueror to its Cannes slate. The feature, based on a true story, is directed by US filmmaker ...