On the evening of Sept. 8, 1206, Walon de Sarton, a minor cleric who had participated in the crusader capture of Constantinople in April 1204, made an astonishing discovery. As a canon of the church ...

Hagia Sophia today: Over the past 1500 years it has been a Greek Orthodox and Catholic cathedral, an Ottoman mosque, a museum - and again now a mosque (Getty) British and other researchers have ...

This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the story of the Great Siege of 1453. When histories greatest fortification was ...

This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the story of the Great Siege of 1453. When history's greatest fortification was ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople arrived in Bucharest on Friday to join Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church in officiating, on Sunday, the consecration service for the ...

The ancient world's grandest cathedral is giving up its secrets after nearly 1,500 years as archaeologists discover traces of the 'last Roman emperor' in its stones. Built in 532AD in ancient ...

MOSCOW — Seeking to demonstrate improved relations between the world’s two main Orthodox Christian churches, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople has begun a 10-day visit to Russia, ...