After discovering the identity of his mother, a slave from the Caucasus, Carlo Vecce publishes the monumental 'Life of Leonardo' (Alfaguara), of 680 pages. "The goal is to recover his humanity beyond ...

The Byzantine Empire was one of the first societies to offer its citizens some form of what we now call universal healthcare.

Travel to some of the Mediterranean’s most popular cities at this time and you might even find the locals welcome your ...

The catalogue - online from today with the first 94 works catalogued for the Middle Ages - presents 560 entries in Italian ...

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

Museums, cuisine, nightlife and cruising the Bosphorus are some of the things to do in Istanbul at night. This vibrant city ...

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

By confronting this uncomfortable history, we can ask a critical question: Will the Church continue to be complicit in hatred ...

The art of making Turkish coffee in the sand seems ... It's said that its beginnings date back to the 15th century in ancient Constantinople (now Istanbul), where the first coffee beans were ...

Turkey invests in capital goods through a mix of government-led projects, private sector contributions, and foreign direct ...

With the clear Biblical, Jewish precedence for both Hummus and Za`atar in ancient Israelite cuisine — vastly predating the ...

Catherine the Great: individual empress, mother of the Russian Renaissance, and the longest-ruling female monarch of Russia.