Constantinople’s fall, Dunkirk evacuation, Everest summit, Einstein’s relativity, and key births of Kennedy and Patrick Henry.

Through Google Earth’s lens, we retrace the dramatic Fall of Constantinople in 1453. In just one minute, we chart the city’s ...

Istanbul is a rare place. It's the only city to straddle Europe and the Middle East; the Turkish metropolis is simultaneously an Asian and a European city. This geography helps explain why it was once ...

On Tuesday morning, 20 Jumada al-Ulaa, 857H; may 29, 1453AD, the Ottoman sultan, Mohammed Alfateh launched his last attack to conquer constantinople, after a siege that lasted more than 50 days. When ...

India, May 31 -- From Constantinople's fall to IMEC ambitions, geography continues shaping trade, power, and India-Europe strategic convergence.

In the history of its numerous attempts (there were more than ten of them) to capture the ancient capital of Byzantium, there were several times that Russia was just a step away from realizing its ...