On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

The Silk Road was not just a single route, but a vast network of trade paths that connected Asia, Europe, and Africa for centuries. In this video, we unravel how the Silk Road actually worked—not just ...

The fall of Constantinople, on May 29,1453 was the final phase of the Byzantine-Ottoman Wars and the darkest page in Greek ...

New research shows how trade rooted in local resource differences and the conflicts it sparked, made ancient Greek ...

The Outreach Programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery was established in 2007 with the adoption of General Assembly resolution 62/122. The Programme raises awareness of the history ...

Here, you can select the towns you want on your trade route. Click on each town in the order that you’d like your convoy to visit. Pay attention to wind direction, which is marked on the map ...

The Tea Horse Road got its name from the longtime ancient trade of tea for Tibetan horses ... Zhu often carries a bag weighing 15 kg as he trudges along the ancient route - from Ya'an to Kangding, ...

demonstrating the immense potential of this vital trade route. With trade volume up 72.7 percent year-on-year, the transition to year-round operations is set to further boost economic activity, ...

this was a monumental wall map depicting East Asia stretching from the Indian Ocean in the west to the Spice Islands in the east, with Japan to the north and Java to the south. Its surface was covered ...