Pontiff may step down if pneumonia stops him from having ‘direct contact’ with world’s Catholics, says former Vatican ...

Kings and Generals is remaking its animated historical documentary on the history of the Ottoman Empire, beginning with ...

Previous Vatican updates indicated that the 88-year-old pontiff has been able to receive the Eucharist, rest, read, and work.

The Hagia Sophia is a super famous building in Istanbul. Officially, at least according to the Turkish government, it is a ...

The Byzantine Empire was one of the first societies to offer its citizens some form of what we now call universal healthcare.

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...

The Russian army cut the highway near the village of Ulakly and advanced westward near the village of Constantinople. This is ...

Digenes Akritas is an epic poem from the Byzantine Empire. It follows the exploits of the titular hero in the Byzantine ...

Beset by overtourism, rising waters and dwindling local residents, Venice is a city in crisis. But photographer Michael Kenna ...

By confronting this uncomfortable history, we can ask a critical question: Will the Church continue to be complicit in hatred ...

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the ...

Columella’s “own community” was the region of what is today Cádiz in Spain.