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 ...

Hagia Sophia was one of several great churches originally built by Constantine, the first Christian emperor and founder of the city of Constantinople. For almost 1,000 years Hagia Sophia remained the ...

Sultan Süleyman I is called “the Magnificent” in the West and “the Lawgiver” in Turkey due to the codification of laws, both religious and secular, during his reign. Süleyman’s era is considered the ...

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People break their fast after dusk during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, outside the iconic Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia mosque, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026.(AP Photo/Emrah ...

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 Trump administration is set this week to overturn an Obama-era scientific finding that serves as the legal basis for federal greenhouse-gas regulation, the Environmental Protection Agency said.

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From enjoying the cherry blossom in Kyoto to swimming in Copenhagen’s harbour baths, these cities are ideal for a spring ...

From enjoying the cherry blossom in Kyoto to swimming in Copenhagen’s harbour baths, these cities are ideal for a spring ...

After publishing more than 20 books and winning a Nobel Prize, the Turkish author fought to bring a celebrated novel to the screen — on his own terms. Orhan Pamuk in his office in Istanbul, in an ...