Archaeologists think they may have made a breakthrough discovery of an ancient city with links to a major historical figure.

For decades, a scattering of ruins in southeastern Europe was dismissed as little more than an unremarkable military outpost, ...

Nick Angeloff, an archaeologist at Cal Poly Humboldt, has called the developments at Gradishte a once-in-a-lifetime discovery ...

The Hagia Sophia remains a highly popular tourist destination, attracting millions of travelers. Here is a detailed look at ...

The Achaemenid kings of Persia ruled between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C., but much of what we know about them today comes from Greek rather than Persian sources. The various Greek authors ...

Matteo Berrettini revealed the key change that helped him overcome Alexander Zverev in the second round of the 2025 Monte-Carlo Masters from a one-set deficit. Berrettini's win against the German ...

Sir Steven Runciman’s lapidary account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, now forty years old, was a lamentation for the civilisation and the people he loved: ‘In this story,’ he wrote, ...

On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years old but determined to see through his father’s dream of capturing the ...

Devotional hymns to the Theotokos are as ancient as the first Christian church. The Byzantine Empire from its very inception in Constantinople during the fourth century closely allied itself to the ...

When the news of a phantom invader that has been terrorizing the desert villages reach Hercules, he embarks on a journey to find and stop that invader from raiding the villages on his quest to ...