Liverpool Necropolis, 1912, where 80,000 bodies were buried (Image provided courtesy of Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool ...

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Translated by his daughter Fidya, the landmark work by Sabri Jiryis arrives in English not as a museum piece, but as an ...

And those present populations continue to understand the occupiers and interferers of their lands as Crusaders. The Crusader issue is far from being an issue confined to the Middle Ages. We can think ...

A nearly unique Byzantine fortress has been discovered in Spain, one that passed from Visigothic control to Muslim rule.

In the first few months of the war alone, over 87 libraries and archives were destroyed in the enclave, based on a report released in February 2024 by Librarians and Archivists with Palestine, a ...

A historian who taught generations to look beyond events and into the structures beneath them, Ilber Ortaylı leaves behind ...

Two Greek tourists were arrested in Istanbul after unfurling a flag and chanting slogans inside Hagia Sophia on Holy Thursday ...

Istanbul police announced on Tuesday that two Greek tourists who unfurled a “Byzantine flag” at the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque ...

Pope Leo XIV arrived in Algeria on the morning of April 13, becoming the first pope to make an apostolic journey to the North Africa nation, the first stop of the pope’s 11-day, four-country tour of ...

France's lawmakers will on Monday debate a bill to simplify the return of artworks looted during the colonial era to their ...

The Hagia Sophia mosaics are unique and represent the ultimate example of Byzantine craftsmanship. They are the only ...