(Image: Courtesy Alexxx1979 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Originally, it was built as a church under the direction of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I ... Built during the Ottoman ...

Greek Independence Day, on March 25, marks the beginning of the Greek revolt against Ottoman rule in 1821 and overlaps with the Feast of the Annunciation.

"With this cross, I pray you bring peace to the world and make America invincible!" said Archbishop Elpidophoros of the Greek ...

Some of my most vivid memories from my first visit to Istanbul in the 1970s are of the colorful locals. Scruffy kids sold ...

Workers uncovered the remains of a Late Roman period settlement covering an area of 4,400 square meters, according to Enikos.

It was an empire comprised of different cultures of Eastern Europe, Asia Minor, West Asia, and North Africa. In the course... When you think about Byzantine emperors, machines, rising thrones, and ...

History explains the modern world by tracking phenomena like gender, race, class, religion, the state, empire, or capitalism back through time. Our historians are able to reach back to the Roman ...