Alongside its mosques, Istanbul is a city known for its palaces. To any visitor, the gigantic but humbly designed Topkapi Palace near the Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque is a must see. Across the Golden ...

A collection of amphoras and lamps from the Byzantine era have been uncovered over the past month under the Tawfiq Andraos palace. The discovery is one of several ancient treasures uncovered beneath ...

ISTANBUL - Squatters have invaded a Byzantine palace in Istanbul's Sarayburnu district while drug addicts and homeless people have commandeered the rest of the grounds. Time has been hard on the 1,200 ...

The winding streets of old Istanbul are an overlapping cacophony of seagulls, ship horns and vendors of colorful fresh fruit. Shady fig trees cluster near crumbling Byzantine walls and sweeping ...

Turkish city’s pre-Ottoman heritage is falling away through lack of care or being obscured for political purposes Inside a municipal cafe built into Istanbul’s ancient city walls, waiters scurried ...

A team of Turkish archaeologists found a 1,600-year-old fountain while restoring the ancient Boukoleon Palace, one of the oldest Byzantine-era structures in Instanbul, Chinese news site Xinhua Net ...

Photo taken on July 2, 2021 shows the Boukoleon Palace in the restoration process in Istanbul, Turkey.Photo:Xinhua Photo taken on July 2, 2021 shows the Boukoleon Palace in the restoration process in ...