The emperor died fighting the Ottoman Turks when Constantinople fell in ... chronologically preserved portrait of an emperor in Byzantine monumental painting,” added the Ministry of Culture.

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...

In 1453, the Byzantine capital of Constantinople is surrounded by Ottoman Turks. The city is but a shadow of its former glory due to the empire's ever receding coffers, while the Ottoman Empire ...