The Eastern and Western Roman Empires had a layered history, experienced a major division, and left lasting cultural and ...

His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788, is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of ...

David Keys explores how British and Czech archaeologists have been solving the mysteries of Roman Constantinople. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.

Constantinople had been the Christian capital of the East for a millennium, and losing the capital, not just to another Christian empire but to the Muslims, was heartbreaking and unfortunate.

Van Milligen, Alexander; "Byzantine Constantinople" This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

The tipping point came with his proclamation as consul in 400 AD. This sparked a popular uprising in Constantinople during which about seven thousand Ostrogoths living in the city were lynched, ...

Constantinople was conquered, and the Byzantine Roman Empire ended, on May 29, 1453. Skip to content. ... Christianity ceased to be the dominant religion in what is now Turkey and the East in general.

A discussion of the Byzantium Empire, the longest lasting empire in the western world which began in 330 A.D. and collapsed 1,123 years later in 1453.

( NewsNation) — Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Christian settlement in Jordan that dates back to the mid-sixth ...

One of the most beloved saints of the Christian East, the renowned preacher and fourth-century Archbishop of Constantinople John Chrysostom, will be remembered and celebrated in the Roman Catholic ...