This classic account shows how the fall of Constantinople in May 1453 ... To the Greeks, the conquest meant the end of the civilisation of Byzantium and led to the exodus of scholars stimulating the ...

In 1453, the Byzantine capital of Constantinople is surrounded by Ottoman Turks. The city is but a shadow of its former glory due to the empire's ever receding coffers, while the Ottoman Empire ...

The newly discovered portrait, the only contemporary of the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine Palaiologos XI. Credit: Ministry of Culture of Greece Based on stylistic criteria, the work can be ...