Byzantine-era monuments in Istanbul, Turkey - formerly the Byzantine capital city Constantinople - are being covered up.

In 1947, the OSS was rechristened as the Central Intelligence Agency, or CIA. One year later, Athenagoras was elected ...

Kirill Gerstein’s immense recording project “Music in Time of War” surveys works by artists who witnessed World War I and the ...

The Hymn of Kassiane takes center stage on Holy Tuesday in the Orthodox church, as Greeks move closer to the end of Lent ...

Turkey is the latest European country to launch a digital nomad visa. The Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry announced it ...

The seat of the Roman Empire is Constantinople ... Therefore you are the legitimate Emperor of the Romans ... And he who is and remains Emperor of the Romans is also Emperor of the whole earth.

Trade routes, the sea, and land made Constantinople attractive to traders. It was a strong military city that prospered from trade. At the same time, western Roman cities began to crumble while ...

Few of the world’s great cities share a pedigree and history as rich as Constantinople. Originally founded, according Greek mythology, by Byzas – son of the god Poseidon, the town once known as ...

Eastern Orthodox Easter will be celebrated on May 5th this year. Easter is called Pascha in the Orthodox Church. Pascha is ...

Ravenna is on Italy's tourist map for one reason: its 1,500-year-old churches decorated with best-in-the-West Byzantine ...

Citi raised the firm's price target on GE Aerospace to $186 from $120.43 and reiterated a buy rating on the shares. The ...

You Again! The first time it was fine—two cavemen huddling for warmth—the Pleistocene, anything goes! And when we met again ...