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

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

The so-called “stateless people,” who originally migrated from northern India to Europe in the 14th century, are today officially referred to as “Roma” and “Travellers,” two umbrella terms adopted by ...

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

In the early days of Islamic art and architecture ... sharp contrast to the icon-rich Byzantine aesthetics. With the fall of Constantinople, an architectural revolution began from within the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add in a beautiful art style that disguises its lesser budget ... Admittedly, that brilliance isn't felt in every part of the game. Constantinople is fairly drab and forgettable, and the tower ...

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

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...