Archaeologists in Istanbul have discovered the remains ... the city was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and known as Constantinople. The rooms were located beneath the Church of St.

Five different sets of walls have been built around the city of Constantinople, the most important of which was the last ... Dimensions of the walls were taken partly from first hand measurements of ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...

The tunnels were believed to have been built between A.D. 524 and 527 when Istanbul was known as Constantinople and ...