Before Hagia Sophia dominated the skyline, Hagia Irene served as Constantinople's original patriarchal seat, and its bare mosaic dome still tells the story of one of Byzantium's most violent religious ...

In 1453, Constantinople was no longer the metropolis of Justinian. Its population had shrunk dramatically. Entire districts ...

In her exhibition, Allen took audiences through the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the surviving Eastern Roman ...

Imagine the walls that have soaked up 1600 years of history in one of Constantinople’s most important Byzantine monasteries, ...

The city of wonders -- Founding fathers -- Defence -- Palaces and power -- Churches and monasteries -- 'Two thirds of the wealth of this world' -- Democracy -- The beginning of the end -- The ruin of ...