Kalenderhane Mosque Tracing Byzantine Legacy
Exploring Istanbul’s Vezneciler neighborhood, one can encounter the Kalenderhane Mosque, a remarkable relic from the Byzantine Era. Restored in the 1960s, this structure unveils...
Exploring Istanbul Archaeology Museums
An Overview of Istanbul’s Rich Cultural Heritage
Perched on Osman Hamdi Bey Hill in Sultanahmet, the Istanbul Archaeology Museums stand as a testament to the...
Eski Imaret Mosque
Discovering Byzantine Legacy
The Eski Imaret Mosque, also known as the Pantepoptes Monastery Church, stands as a silent witness to Istanbul’s rich Byzantine heritage. Situated...
Deliberately Gothic and dynastic
The spectacle hit every note of Roman splendor, but the message was deliberately Gothic and dynastic. At the same time, Theoderic’s house historian wrote...
Balkans into Italy
And bear in mind the passage of time. When adult men and women who made their way from the Balkans into Italy with Theoderic...
Uncivilizable injection of barbarism into Rome
Many who know nothing of the facts of the matter still deeply and instinctively believe an alternative view—that these people represented an irreducible and...
Theognis told
“You could hardly censure me more than I have already condemned myself,” Theognis told him. “Being both philosopher and priest, I am perhaps as...
Emperor and Empress hostile
Belisarius, although none of the charges against him were proved, was at the insistence of the Empress relieved of his command by the Emperor;...
How Theodora Humiliated the Conqueror of Africa and Italy
But Belisarius, disregarding his word of honor, took no measures to avenge his accomplice’s suffering of such impious treatment as has been told. And...
Theodora’s palace were certain secret
Later, however, everything that up to this time had been concealed came to light. Discovering Calligonus in the neighborhood, Theodora handed him over to...
