Built as Byzantium, and then renamed Constantinople, Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.
A recent scientific study has identified the Greek name Sofia (or Sophia) as the most beautiful name in the world.
In the brilliant long-form podcast Fall of Civilizations, author Paul Cooper gives listeners a sense of how average citizens living in ...
Travellers to Alexandria in Egypt can visit the restored apartment of Constantine Cavafy, the favourite bard of Jackie ...
AD: Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.