open image in gallery The site was unearthed in 1939 with a 27-metre oak ship discovered alongside Byzantium silverware and other treasures (Getty) “We should be willing to consider that these ...

Byzantium, an ancient Greek city founded in 657 BCE by settlers from the city-state of Megara, was located on the Bosporus Strait in modern Istanbul, Turkey. Its strategic position between Europe and ...

Credit: Argos’ Dad , Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 The story of Constantinople, or modern-day Istanbul, is a fascinating one that dates back millennia to the time when this mega-city was a small ...