Archaeologists discovered a mysterious network of tunnels and rooms with mosaics and marble beneath the 1,500-year-old Church ...

When you think of Florence Nightingale, you probably imagine a nurse with a lamp, comforting soldiers. Indeed, Florence is considered the mother of modern nursing. But she also made serious ...

The legendary Roman empire took in every country around the Mediterranean Sea (which the Romans called “Mare Nostrum”—”Our Sea.”) It was so powerful that it managed to last for 500 years in the West ...

Kiev held a mass to thank Constantinople for recognising the Ukrainian Church's independence The Russian Orthodox Church has cut ties with the Church leadership in Istanbul, the Constantinople ...

Constantinople – officially renamed Istanbul in the 1920s – has an extraordinary past, and an exhilarating present and future as modern Turkey wrestles with the present-day challenges and what the ...

Meagan Drillinger left New York City for a life on the road. She has spent the majority of her career traveling and living in Mexico, and is passionate about seeing destinations in a slow-paced ...

A scribe working in Constantinople handwrites a copy of the ... in the library of The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Istanbul, identifies the underlying layer of text as the work of Archimedes ...

The Basilica Cistern is Istanbul's largest surviving Byzantine ... fields – once supplied water to the Great Palace of Constantinople, a large palace that served as the main residence for ...

and it is where you'll find most of Istanbul's highlights. This area holds a significant place in history, as it was once the city of Constantinople, the center of the Roman Empire. Multiple ...

Combining art rock and a sense of the absurd, They Might Be Giants has never fit comfortably into a musical genre. From their ...

Spread across two continents and between two seas, Istanbul is a city of empires past. The Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, Topkapi Palace, and Galata Tower are just some of the many historic structures ...

The fact that he followed the heckle up with a brand new arrangement of "When I Paint My Masterpiece" that echoed Irving Berlin's "Puttin' On The Ritz" (or possibly "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" by ...