Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s masterpiece captures the folly of humanity’s desire to reach heaven on its own terms.

Kings and Generals is remaking its animated historical documentary on the history of the Ottoman Empire, beginning with ...

Find out where to stay in Istanbul. Discover prime locations like Sultanahmet and Taksim for an unforgettable experience.

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the ...

Homer's Epics, Iliad and Odyssey, brought the ideas of Greek civilization to the world, serving as the foundation of Western literature.

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

A decision of the whole Orthodox Church could transfer the œcumenical function of the Archbishop of Constantinople to any other of the Patriarchates which, besides the ancient Patriarchates of ...

Painting miniatures is a good, chill time. Since I picked the hobby back up in 2017 I’ve spent hundreds of hours away from my screens, listening to good music and great podcasts. And ...

Did God say not to eat of any of the trees?” When the woman correctly states what God commanded, the devil then proceeds to ...

The author looks at the defining features and similarities of work by Hieronymus Bosch, Max Beckmann and William Kentridge ...

Crusaders attack Constantinople in a miniature painting from the book The Conquest of Constantinople ... Some of them survived until the fall of the Republic itself in 1797. The whole of the ...

Objectives Prevention of falls and fall-related injuries is a priority due to the substantial health and financial burden of falls on patients and healthcare systems. Deprescribing medications known ...