Imagine the walls that have soaked up 1600 years of history in one of Constantinople’s most important Byzantine monasteries, ...

Have you ever thought that politics feels like a rollercoaster, with machinations and sharp ups and downs similar to those of Byzantium?

This is the eightheenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time ...

Saint Catherine’s Monastery was the place where God spoke to Prophet Moses and manifested to him on the mountain.

At the time, the city was Constantinople. "Before the British had their empire ... the Italians settled all around the coast ...

Admittedly, this country wedged between Russia to the North, the Caspian Sea on the East and Iran to the South is hardly the ...

At the time, the city was Constantinople. "Before the British had their empire ... the Italians settled all around the coast of the Black Sea, and they traded in the hinterlands with all the ...

Bodiam Castle in East Sussex is a classic medieval castle, with thick, crenellated walls supported by nine stubby towers ... initially built by Ottoman sultan Mehmed II after he conquered ...