The ancient city of Constantinople sprawls across two continents, and in 1930 it was renamed Istanbul. The Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Statue in Gulhane Park, Istanbul, Turkey.

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 ...

Archaeologists believe they’ve found the city of Lyncus. In the 7th century BCE, Lyncus was the capital city of Lyncestis, founded in the northernmost mountain region of Upper Macedonia.

A team of archaeologists thinks it has uncovered the remains of an ancient city in North Macedonia, which was home to the ancestors of Alexander the Great.The site of what was once Lyncus, the ...