George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

The People’s Republic of China has reportedly developed a new weapon of mass destruction, one that employs hydrogen fuel, yet isn’t nuclear.

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Then I entered an entirely new and exotic realm — the eastern Roman Empire, a dominion that survived the fall of Rome in 476 by almost a thousand years. The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453 ...

On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years old but determined to see through his father’s dream of capturing the ...

ISTANBUL – Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on preserving the monument's historic domes from the threat of ...

Built in 537 CE under Byzantine Emperor Justinian I, it stood for nearly 900 years as a major cathedral of Eastern Orthodox Christianity and a crowning achievement of Byzantine architecture.