Under the Byzantines, Hagia Sophia became the hub of Orthodox Christianity and the last standing symbol of their empire. But in 1453, when Ottoman sultan Mehmed II (a.k.a. Mehmed the Conqueror) ...

Since the dawn of civilisation, war has been a tragic companion to human progress. Empires rose and fell. Civilisations ...

Despite its diminutive size on the all-too-common world maps that use Mercator projection, Africa is the second-largest ...