The most famous and significant was brought to London beginning in 1803 by the former British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, the nobleman Thomas Bruce—more commonly known as Lord Elgin.

While Lord Elgin had received the necessary permit to look for and examine sculptures in and around the Parthenon, it is unclear whether he had permission from the Ottomans to remove them from the ...

In 1071, a small nomadic dynasty—named the Seljuks after their founder—fought a battle against Byzantine forces under the ...

Alton recalled the story of Armenian Bishop Grigoris Balakian, one of just sixteen survivors among 250 intellectuals arrested ...