Imagine the walls that have soaked up 1600 years of history in one of Constantinople’s most important Byzantine monasteries, ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...

The fall of Constantinople on May 29, 1453, marked the end of Byzantine rule and the beginning of a new era under Ottoman ...

At the heart of Venice’s globally renowned St. Mark's Square sits Biblioteca Marciana, a library filled with the ghosts of a ...