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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

Archaeologists Found a 3,000-Year-Old Lost City That May Hold Secrets of a Royal Past The capital of an ancient kingdom is home to the lineage of one of history’s greatest leaders. By Emma ...

A contractor in Syria discovered an ancient underground Byzantine tomb complex believed to be 1,500 years old below a destroyed home. The grave site was found last month in the town of Maarat al ...

Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar is one of the most bustling spots in one of the world’s greatest, busiest cities. After a multimillion-dollar restoration, exclusive new rooftop tours offer a unique ...

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 ...

Around five years after Justinian came to the imperial throne in AD 527, that rivalry ultimately generated an attempted revolution in which much of central Constantinople (including the city's ...

This ancient city sim constantly simulates 1000 NPCs in a ... it should come as no surprise that Streets of Fortuna is aiming to simulate its ancient, Constantinople-esque sandbox cities so ...