Momentous events usually have a history, and the collapse of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire in 1453 can be said to have its onset 399 years earlier. There is a direct line from the Great ...

Based on the presence of the cross and the pottery and glass pieces that were found, this tomb dates back to the Byzantine ...

When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had up to that point survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire ...

On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began ... capital of the Roman empire before becoming the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Successive attacks from the Latins, Serbs, Bulgarians ...

The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453, when Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) was conquered by the Ottoman Turks. Through the past two centuries, fabled Byzantium was reduced to little more ...

In Greek Orthodox Christianity, which was the official religion of the Byzantine Empire that lasted from 312 to 1453 A.D., some factions were against sacred images and some in favor of them.

When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had up to that point survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire at Rome.

A contractor found a tomb complex dating back to the Byzantine Empire in Syria's Idlib province, just as many residents have ...

There is no other place on Earth where Christian mosaics of saints and Byzantine rulers are juxtaposed ... the last standing symbol of their empire. But in 1453, when Ottoman sultan Mehmed II ...

A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled ...

Art history has long emphasized the glories of the Byzantine Empire (circa 330–1453), but less known are the profound artistic contributions of North Africa, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, and other powerful ...