Narrated in Mosnad Ahmad, #22978 The Prophet ﷺ is reported to have said, 'Verily you shall conquer Constantinople. What a wonderful leader will her leader ...

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, ...

Constantinople remained the beacon of civilization across the Eastern Mediterranean during the Middle Ages. Its libraries housed several ancient Greek and Roman manuscripts, while its workshops ...

到1570年初，隨著鄂圖曼的準備工作的完成，以及位在君士坦丁堡的威尼斯總辦（英语：Bailo of Constantinople）馬可·安東尼奧·巴巴羅 ... 围攻三个月（英语：Siege of ...

This portrait is not only an outstanding example of late Byzantine art but also holds profound historical and symbolic significance. It represents the end of an era and the figure of an emperor who ...

Belisarius is the much underrated military commander of the Byzantine Empire who helped reclaim huge swathes of the Roman Empire.

Mehmet told Orban that he would have everything he needed to build this great cannon, which was built in Adrianople -then the Ottoman capital- and carried to the walls of Constantinople by a ...

The early years of the Renaissance were turbulent in Europe. Few places were safe from the political power struggles that ...

Mehmet II launches his campaign to end the Byzantine Empire and take Constantinople for the Ottomans, resulting in arguably the greatest siege of that age.

Three years ago, Roger Crowley published an account of the siege of Constantinople that gave Runciman’s classic on the subject a run for its money. A superb summary of the forces that met in that ...

Marlon Mullen’s show at the Museum of Modern Art, the first by a developmentally disabled artist, speaks volumes. The artist Marlon Mullen goes through a meticulous process of preparing before ...

Credit: Al Ameer son / Wikimedia Commons The Armenian bishop and historian Sebeos wrote a History of Heraclius in which he asserts that Abu’l-Awar’s fleet continued onward with the aim of besieging ...