Deep beneath the soil of North Macedonia, near the village of Crnobuki, a long-lost city is emerging from the shadows of ...

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

Francis' friend and ally, among others in matters of ecology - the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew - was present. In Rome today, we honour the life and legacy of Pope Francis ...

The current Hagia Sophia was built in the 6th century when Constantinople — as Istanbul was then called — was the heart of the Orthodox Christian Byzantine Empire that emerged as Ancient Rome ...

Objects of Islamic heritage at the Islamic Arts Biennale highlight cultural diversity ...

The start of imperial Rome is officially dated to 27 BCE, when Gaius Octavius Caesar was awarded the name Augustus, signaling ...

after Rome and Constantinople. This idea made conquest seem like a holy mission. By the late 1700s, the Russian Empire had destroyed Poland-Lithuania in a series of territorial annexations and wars.

Roughly an hour and 10 minutes from Ramstein Air Base by car, it’s a veritable monument to a 15th-century native son named ...

The structure is modeled after the Hagia Sophia, the foremost Orthodox Christian church built in the 4th century in Constantinople ... Western Catholic Church in Rome. (Orthodox churches don ...