Bulgaria

Enigmatic Istanbul is an endless story. It’s the story of Istanbul’s many names, the story of settling the city, ‘Opposite the blind’. Although these...

Historians from Herodotus to Procopius recount ancient battles with discouraging sameness over most of 1,000 years, for good reason. Fortified vehicles are the most...

Procopius confines his story to wars, not peace. As a result, he gives us only the tip of the iceberg for the story that...

Theodahad first shows up in the record in a strongly worded letter to him from Theoderic, who had to remind him that scripture says...

Reducing these various stories and assertions to a single set of dialectically defensible assertions that all can agree on has proved, over two millennia,...

What Theodosius left behind, more important than his sons, was a religious landscape denuded of the familiar and the emergence, by encouragement and by...

Constantine postponed baptism until he was on his deathbed to assure himself of heaven without risking post-baptismal relapse. The half century that followed saw...

Flocks of birds rose into flight, stirred from their feeding by the passage of so many mounted men. And from the jungle along the...

Constantine smiled. “Sometimes I wonder why I listen to these wild tales of yours ”“Because you know they’re true. Empires are built, and maintained,...

“Somewhere between here and Busiris or Coptos, you became a man,” he said. “I’m sorry about Minervina. She was a lovely child.” “It has...