Almost 20 years ago, the Lebanese rose against Syria’s domination of their country, including an occupation force of roughly ...

I learned a lot about the Crusades and became very interested in medieval understandings of emotions and how they manifest ...

The sound of Hagia Sophia was recreated recently by two scholars from California’s Stanford University by simply popping a ...

ShareThe triumph of Western civilisation after the fall of Rome over the earth was most unlikely event in world history. By the ‘West’, Europe and America are easily indicated and identified as ...

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

Byzantine Empire, Hellenic Lyceum of Sydney, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, UNSW, Women's History, Theatre, Dance, Music, History, Culture, Australia, Constantinople, Greek Diaspora, World Premiere, Hist ...

The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lived empires in southeastern Europe and the Middle East. It can only ...

After solidifying political and social reforms, Atatürk shifted his focus to modernising Turkey’s economy. Initially ...

The North Carolina Museum of Art focuses on the complex relationship between the two maritime empires, in an exhibition that ...

Ancient shipwrecks have shone new light on how and when the Eastern Roman Empire began its 1,000 year decline and eventual ...

There is a tendency on the part of some scholars - particularly Armenians - not to try to explain the genocide because – “why do you need to explain it? These are Turks, this is what they do, and this ...

Greece under Prime Minister Venizelos stirred the hornet’s nest by starting war against the Ottomans/Turkish Nationalists. The war likely would have concluded successfully for the Hellenes ...