Hagia Sophia remains the symbolic center of Greek Orthodoxy even centuries after its fall to the Ottomans and conversion to a ...

The story of Constantinople is a fascinating one that dates back millennia to when this mega-city was a small Greek town known as Byzantium.

What led to the decline of Byzantium? How did the Turks manage to capture Constantinople? These events were a severe blow to the aspirations of the crusaders -who neither recovered the Holy Land, nor ...

In 1453, as the ancient walls of Constantinople crumbled under Ottoman cannons, an unexpected chain of events was set in motion that would reshape the course of human knowledge. The fall of ...

Does the Russian Orthodox Church believe that Russia, through its invasion of Ukraine, is restraining the appearance of the ...

Certain Eastern Orthodox churches, including those in Russia, follow the ancient Julien calendar, which runs 13 days later ...

Sir Steven Runciman’s lapidary account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, now forty years old, was a lamentation for the civilisation and the people he loved: ‘In this story,’ he wrote, ...

The history and characteristics of the unique surviving portrait of the last byzantine emperor, Constantine Palaiologos, ...

The New Orleans Fire Department is on the scene of a partial building collapse on Magazine Street and Felicity Street in the Lower Garden District. The building collapsed around 5:45 p.m., and the ...

NEW ORLEANS — Emergency crews responded Monday night to a building collapse near the intersection of Magazine and Felicity Streets, prompting evacuations and a renewed focus on building inspections.

It dates to the 15th-century fall of the great empire and offers a vision of the man painted according to his likeness.

Janet Dowling Sands will deliver a lecture, “A New Look at California’s Mission History,” on Thursday, Jan. 16, at Sonoma ...