A mural depicting Constantinople and its walls. Credit: Argos’ Dad , Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 The story of Constantinople, or modern-day Istanbul, is a fascinating one that dates back millennia ...

The ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides is considered by many to be the father of pharmacology for authoring De ...

A team of archaeologists from the University of Manchester has unearthed the remains of the ancient city of Imet in the Tell el-Fara’in area in the Sharqia Governorate, northeast of Cairo. The ...

Like Ancient Rome, the ancient city of Cahokia collapsed very suddenly, which historians believe happened sometime around 1400 AD, for reasons that continue to baffle and divide historians.

During the celebration, Pope Leo XIV revived the ancient tradition of personally imposing the pallium on new metropolitan ...

Western Türkiye's ancient city of Tralleis, located in the Efeler district of Aydin, is expected to open to the public this summer after decades of extensive archaeological excavations. Founded ...

The cathedral’s architect, Trdat—who later repaired the dome of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople—is also mentioned without ...

Euronews visits Turkistan, the holy city of Asian Muslims and UNESCO’s cultural site with its ancient streets, a 14th century mausoleum, 16th century baths and 21st century tourist attractions.

Much of what we know about the city’s early flourishing comes from a remarkable collection of more than 23,000 clay Assyrian tablets discovered at the Turkish site of Karum Kanesh, 600 miles away.

Ancient Romans in need of a quick bite often chowed down on fried songbirds, new research suggests. A researcher working on the island of Mallorca found bones of song thrushes inside a trash pit ...

Winchester has always loved its kings — and the kings loved Winchester. ‘The king in Winchester, the primate in Canterbury, “like two strong oxen pulled the plough of England”,’ wrote Hilaire Belloc ...