From Viking raids and dynastic civil war to a showdown with the most powerful kingdom in Britain, Constantine II ruled for four extraordinary decades over a kingdom that had no right to survive. This ...

The collection once belonged to the noble Beaufort-Spontin family, who were suspected of having collaborated with the Nazis.

A heavily corroded bronze coin bearing the face of Roman Emperor Constantine has been discovered four metres beneath the ...

Constantine XI Palaiologos, last Byzantine emperor. Credit: George E. Koronaios /Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 On May 29, 1453, the Ottoman army, led by Mehmed the Conqueror, seized Constantinople, ...

ATHENS, Greece — Constantine, the former and last king of Greece, who won an Olympic gold medal before becoming entangled in his country's volatile politics in the 1960s as king and spent decades in ...

On May 29, 1453, the ancient Roman city of Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks. Many historians consider the ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,000-year-old sandstone monument depicting a Roman emperor as a pharaoh. Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius: The only surviving larger-than-life-size ...

Constantine II, the former King of Greece, passed away on January 10, 2023, at the age of 82. He was the last king of the Hellenes in the modern era. At just 20 years old, he won an Olympic gold medal ...

Byzantine coins of Constantine I (Constantine the Great) discovered in Japan. Photo of Constantine I coin exhibited at the State Museum of Berlin. Credit: Public Domain A number of Byzantine coins ...