The story of Constantinople is a fascinating one that dates back millennia to when this mega-city was a small Greek town ...

In 1453, as the ancient walls of Constantinople crumbled under Ottoman cannons ... triggered an intellectual exodus that would ignite the flames of the Renaissance and pave the way for modern science.

The emperor died fighting the Ottoman Turks when Constantinople fell in 1453, Nichol said, but various myths have constructed a narrative about his demise with storytellers purporting that he turned ...

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The first thing you'll see as you approach Dubrovnik from the sky or the sea is the city walls. These ancient fortifications were built and rebuilt in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries as the ...

But for native Detroiters, seeing walls adorned with art isn’t new, it’s just newly embraced. And the city aims to continue to embrace that artistry. Head of the city’s Blight Remediation Department ...

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2070BC-c.1600BC) with the discovery of a rammed-earth wall suspected to be the city wall of the capital of the late Xia period, near the Erlitou site in Luoyang, Central China's Henan Province ...

The relocation and renovation of the Archaeological Museum and the creation of the City Interpretation Centre are two ...