On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years old but determined to see through his father’s dream of capturing the ...

Constantinople was conquered, and the Byzantine Roman Empire ended, on May 29, 1453. ... Cannons fueled by gunpowder had been invented in China in the 12th century, ...

Scientists investigated the longest aqueduct of the time, the 426-kilometer-long Aqueduct of Valens supplying Constantinople, ... until at least the 12th century.

This is an enamel icon illustrating the Archangel Michael, from Constantinople, 12th century. Photo per gentile concessione delle Procuratoria di San Marco/Cameraphoto Arte, Venice ...

The late Roman aqueduct provided water for the population of Constantinople. The Roman Empire was ahead of its time in many ways, ... until at least the 12th century.

Between A.D. 529 and 533, the Roman emperor promulgated his Codex constitutionum and Digesta with great fanfare, in Constantinople. But by then the empire was failing, and the daunting codes were ...

Successive attacks from the Latins, Serbs, Bulgarians and Ottoman Turks, as well as mass fatalities from the Black Death, had weakened the Byzantine Empire and the population within Constantinople ...