Join Me on an incredible journey through Istanbul, Turkey, exploring the historic Grand Bazaar, the Hagia Sophia, the Blue ...

How much of a monument’s story still lies under its own floor? At Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, that question has taken on unusual weight. Restoration crews working around the monument’s foundations have ...

The same report describes multiple underground “spaces” and linked tunnels in the western garden and northern (Vezir) garden areas. This isn’t the first time Hagia Sophia’s subterranean story has ...

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 ...

Every Romani person wears the trace of Istanbul. Our ancestors’ sojourn in the city—then Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine empire—is evident every time we converse in our language. The Medieval ...