What visiting this UNESCO World Heritage Site tells us about faith, politics, and power, Destinations News - Times Now ...

The Hagia Sophia is at the centre of Turkey's Byzantine, Ottoman and secular history. How did the sixth-century cathedral ...

Agriculture remained an ideal measure of wealth in the ancient world even after Rome achieved economic superiority.

Only a walk inside some of its churches will reveal the city’s stunning and colorful Byzantine mosaics! Ravenna, in ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla will visit the beautiful Italian city Ravenna on their state visit to Italy in April.

From Mali's Great Mosque of Djenné to Malaysia's Crystal Mosque, these are the most beautiful mosques in the world that you ...

Thanks to ingenious water management technology and strong urban markets in the prosperous Byzantine Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries ... rapid climate change starting in 536, and the ...

directly challenged the legitimacy of the upstart Justinian dynasty, generating a political intrigue that would shake the Byzantine royal courts through architecture. Gregory of Tours recounts how ...

Aurangzeb's tomb is located in Khuldabad, a town near Aurangabad in Maharashtra. Unlike the grand mausoleums of other Mughal emperors, Aurangzeb's tomb is a simple structure, reflecting his wishes to ...

Today’s government hopes its own such plan will succeed. By Joe Orovic Reporting from Split, Croatia In 301 A.D., the Emperor Diocletian made a bold but ultimately unsuccessful bid to address ...

The gravestone of Ferdinand Palaiologos on Barbados, the last descendant of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine Palaiologos. Credit: Anneli Salo, CC BY-SA 4.0/Wikipedia The last descendant of the ...