The story of Constantinople is a fascinating one that dates back millennia to when this mega-city was a small Greek town ...

Van Milligen, Alexander; "Byzantine Constantinople" This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

Constantinople and the triple line of walls that were built over time. Credit: Jniemenmaa / Wikimedia Commons According to experts, what we know of that original wall is not due to Byzas but to the ...

The walls of Byzantium, or Constantinople as it is also known, played a crucial role in defending western, Christian civilization. Explain why, and how “ The Horrible Bombard ” effectively ...

President Trump wants to build a wall along the border between U.S. and Mexico. Here are famous border and protective walls through history, ranked by their length: A rainbow over the ancient ...

The eastern Roman empire was founded by Constantine the Great on May 11, A.D. 330. The empire fell on May 29, 1453, when the army of the Ottoman sultan Mehmet II breached the walls of Constantinople.

In 15th century Constantinople, a young girl scales the high walls of an abandoned monastery said to be haunted by spirits who carry their chamberlain through the broken halls on a throne made of ...

The siege lasted for 53 days, during which the city's defenders fought valiantly against overwhelming odds. The fall of Constantinople on May 29, 1453, marked the end of Byzantine rule and the ...