The New Mosque is backdropped by Istanbul's skyline and the Bosporus, Thursday, July 9, 2015. It's the former seat of the opulent Byzantine and Ottoman empires and is divided into European and Asian ...

Byzantine architecture has had a profound influence across the world, including in the Balkans, Middle East, and North ...

The Byzantine Bureau of Barbarians functioned as an intelligence agency, securing the empire's survival through espionage and ...

Associate Prof. Koray Durak, the curator of "The Adventure of Byzantine Studies in Turkey" exhibition, says that although society has continuous "physical contact" with Byzantium in Turkey, the public ...

A display of manuscripts in the Met’s “Africa & Byzantium” show. Photo by Anna-Marie Kellen, courtesy of The Met In the 14th Century, Ibn Battuta left his native Tangiers to travel the world all the ...