The Hagia Sophia is at the centre of Turkey's Byzantine, Ottoman and secular history. How did the sixth-century cathedral ...

Experience the chaos and artistry of the historic Battle of Pavia through seven giant tapestries at the Museum of Fine Arts, ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have uncovered a 1,500-year-old skeleton of a woman ... especially in the Eastern Roman Empire. Many religious figures withdrew from society to live in monasteries ...

Since the downfall of the Baathist regime, Syrians have been speaking more freely about their future – and their doubts in ...

Eugenio Alliata's office in Jerusalem resembles any archaeology workshop that prefers fieldwork. On the overcrowded shelves, ...

Brush up on the Pole family, Charles V, the Holy Roman Empire & the history that shaped the events in Episode 1 as seen on MASTERPIECE.

In the worst, it faces the fall of the Roman Empire. As it was for Rome, so too will it be for America — unless, they suggest, we learn the lessons of history. Whether they focus on the fall of ...

By Eve Sampson Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost ...

Battle at the dawn of urban Vienna Historical records show that in the late 1st century, during the reign of the emperor Domitian, costly battles took place on the Roman Empire’s northern Danube ...

A Roman settlement found in Bulgaria next to the Via Militaris ... and other objects that shed light on life in this region more than 1,500 years ago. Stratigraphic analysis has identified several ...