Sir Steven Runciman’s lapidary account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, now forty years old, was a lamentation for the civilisation and the people he loved: ‘In this story,’ he wrote, ...

Many Greek Orthodox churches were transformed into mosques after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The same holds true of the emblematic Hagia Sophia, which was converted into a mosque only a few ...

After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque by the Ottoman Turks. The Byzantine legal system also profoundly influenced the development of Western law.

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One of the wonders of the ancient world, the Temple of Artemis stood for millennia, wearing natural and manmade disasters. A ...

Instead, I draw your attention to the following “trailer” for The Fall Of Gondolin, made using almost entirely AI. Only the music and titles were not made with AI, though having messed around ...

Fall isn't all it's cracked-up to be. Credit: Mashable composite / Photo by Uwe Anspach / picture alliance via Getty Images Mashable's series Don't @ Me takes unpopular opinions and backs them up ...

But Brezhnev, who manoeuvred himself into power in Khrushchev’s stead, learned from the fall of his predecessor and tightened his grip on the levers of power. Yet the Soviet Union – thanks in ...