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In “Rasputin,” the biographer Antony Beevor delves into the mysterious life of the last czarina’s mystic adviser.

Péter Magyar’s Tisza party defied expectations by securing a two-thirds super-majority of seats in the Hungarian parliament ...

From the savage murder of Grand Prince Igor to his son Sviatoslav's annihilation of the Khazar Khaganate and devastating wars ...

The Tisza Party, founded just two years ago, has ended the Victor Orbán era after 16 years in power. Voters did not simply ...

The Hagia Sophia mosaics are unique and represent the ultimate example of Byzantine craftsmanship. They are the only ...

Dame Averil Cameron, who has died aged 86, was Professor of Byzantine History at Oxford, and a leading voice in a generation ...

During the 15th and 16th centuries, a wave of Greek Byzantine scholars arrived in Italy where they contributed tremendously to the Renaissance ...

For weeks, they’d been having furtive discussions about whether Sam Altman, OpenAI’s C.E.O., and Greg Brockman, his second-in ...

In 1847 a few poor labourers living near Kottayam, a city in what is now the Indian state of Kerala, stumbled upon a hoard of gold coins. They exchanged these for a day’s worth of rice or a few rupees ...

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon released into its full version 1.0 update almost a year ago. Since then, the game has sold upwards of 250,000 copies and continues to provide some strong value, ...

Uncover the complex and often tragic story of how Turkey’s once-Christian majority became a small minority, shaped by centuries of conquest, conversion, population exchanges, and political upheaval.