The Hagia Sophia remains a highly popular tourist destination, attracting millions of travelers. Here is a detailed look at ...

A new study has bolstered the theory that a dramatic climate shift known as the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA) played a ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

While most people are familiar with ancient capitals like Athens and Rome ... Most importantly, this city was the capital of the Western Roman Empire throughout the 5th century – other early Christian ...

In the predawn light, I could see that the cave opened out upon the jagged eastern coastline ... After the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in A.D. 476, Capri entered a lonely period.

the capitals) by location on a map ... Antioch - 3 rd largest city of Roman empire; early Christian center (Acts 11:19-30; 13:1-3; 14:24-15:35; 18:22-23) CILICIA - region of very early Christian ...

For a fleeting moment she held the fate of the Western world in her hands ... together the two appeared to lay out plans for an eastern Roman empire. Antony and Octavian's fragile peace came ...

In Western Ukraine ... churches—Roman Catholic, Armenian, Greek Catholic, or Orthodox—it’s easy to forget you’re visiting Ukraine, and not one of the trendy Eastern European cities ...

led the capitalist camp—also called the First World or the Western Bloc or the free-market world. The USSR, which became the second nuclear power in 1949, led the communist bloc or the Eastern ...