An exhibition shows the beauty and disparity of maps in a time of rapid discovery, when the shape of the known world was ever ...

Roughly an hour and 10 minutes from Ramstein Air Base by car, it’s a veritable monument to a 15th-century native son named ...

In this episode of Kings and Generals' historical animated series, we examine the cultural and intellectual legacy of the ...

At the heart of Venice’s globally renowned St. Mark's Square sits Biblioteca Marciana, a library filled with the ghosts of a ...

The start of imperial Rome is officially dated to 27 BCE, when Gaius Octavius Caesar was awarded the name Augustus, signaling ...

Map of the Latin Empire and the Kingdom of Thessalonica ... which went on to recapture Constantinople itself and restore the Byzantine Empire in 1261, 57 years after it capitulated to the Latins. The ...

After Zara, the march headed to Constantinople to help the deposed emperor regain his throne against the support of Byzantium in the battles with the infidels. Alexius ascended the throne, but was ...

Russia and North Africa tell the story of the rise and fall of Byzantium and life in the Byzantine Empire and Constantinople. Particular eye-catchers are the relief of the Pazzi Madonna (Donatello, ...

There has been no recent large-scale history of the city with many names (Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul), which makes this colossal undertaking a notable achievement, coming at yet another ...