Such exchange is the locus of the Frist Art Museum’s summer show Venice and the Ottoman Empire, a traveling exhibition of ...

By the start of the medieval period, Central Asia was a zone dominated mostly by people originating in Eastern Eurasia — Jurchen, Mongols, Turks, Huns, Avars, among others — who had replaced ...

From the well-preserved Byzantine era churches to the countless monasteries, Greece has a vast of sacred places dedicated to the divine. Credit: L. Richard Martin, Jr., CC BY 2.0. Greek monasteries ...

It began with an appeal for aid from the Christian Byzantine Empire, threatened by the rising power of the Muslim Seljuk Turks. But when Pope Urban II preached a sermon at Clermont in 1095, the ...

Today, some scientists see a thread of truth in this legendary tale. Biologist Aarathi Prasad, author of Silk: A World History, says that, taken together, genetic traces and archaeological finds ...

Perhaps most special is the crumbling Silk Road Bridge, which stands as a lasting reminder that this region, at its height of power, was one of the largest cities in Turkey, housing 100,000 people ...

It began with an appeal for aid from the Christian Byzantine Empire, threatened by the rising power of the Muslim Seljuk Turks. But when Pope Urban II preached a sermon at Clermont in 1095, the ...

Click here. Ana Kasparian of "The Young Turks" erupted at her co-host when he suggested Vice President Kamala Harris could be the future governor of California, whether one likes it or not.

These pilgrimages were disrupted in the 11th century when Seljuk Turks invaded Anatolia. Christians feared that the Muslims who now governed Demre would disregard the saint’s tomb. So, one crew of ...

On Christmas Day 1400 the English king Henry IV and the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos sat down to their festive dinner at Eltham Palace in southeast England. The embattled emperor had ...

"Kars cheese is famous in Turkey," said Şeyma Çay, who creates itineraries for eastern Turkey travel specialists Silk Road Moments. "Kars' Kashar is one of the most delicious cheeses in the country.