Workers just unearthed seven hidden tunnels beneath the Hagia Sophia, 1,600 years old and packed with Byzantine secrets ...

The Hagia Sophia, constructed during the Byzantine era, had been hiding seven tunnels that were part of a network connecting ...

The same report describes multiple underground “spaces” and linked tunnels in the western garden and northern (Vezir) garden areas. This isn’t the first time Hagia Sophia’s subterranean story has ...

How much of a monument’s story still lies under its own floor? At Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, that question has taken on unusual weight. Restoration crews working around the monument’s foundations have ...

Anicia Juliana was a Byzantine woman who managed to conquer the fields of architecture, using her massive wealth and noble ...

The mosque preserves the Hırka-i Şerif relic in an 1851 complex under Sultan Abdülmecid, featuring 19th-century Ottoman architecture ...

Beyazıt Mosque, one of the early examples of classical Ottoman architecture, continues to draw attention with its strategic location at the ...

This video explores the Church of Hagia Sophia in Nicaea, the site of the Seventh Ecumenical Council in 787, where Empress Irene and church leaders moved to end the iconoclast controversy. It traces ...

The Nika Revolt of 532 AD in Constantinople was one of the bloodiest sports riots in history and nearly led to the toppling ...

Tradition holds that the soldier who pierced Christ’s side at the Crucifixion came to believe in him and is honored today as ...

If the United States wants to defend the homeland against the next generation of missile and aerial threats, hardware alone will not save us. Sensors, radars and interceptors are necessary but no ...