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How the Silkworm's Cocoon Rewrote Trade, Warfare, and the Course of Human Civilisation

The Animal That Cannot Exist Without UsBombyx mori, the mulberry silkworm, is the only fully domesticated insect in the world outside the honeybee. It is blind. It cannot fly. Its wild ancestor, Bombyx mandarina, still exists in China and Japan, but Bombyx mori cannot survive outside human care, five thousand…

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Pectoral with coins: 'One of the most intricate pieces of gold jewelry to survive from the mid-sixth century'

This sixth-century pectoral comprises 14 Byzantine gold coins and a gold disc gathered over two centuries.

LiveScience

Patriarch of Constantinople marks 1,700 years since Christianity's first ecumenical council

One of the council's lasting legacies is the Nicene Creed, a profession of faith still recited by Christians of all big denominations.

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Cappella Mariana, Constantinople: Pilgrimage review – Kryštof Harant’s 1600 adventure reimagined

The Czech nobleman and composer’s journey from Bohemia to Jerusalem is the inspiration for this rewarding cross-cultural album

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Vikings: Valhalla season 3 episode 4 recap: Freydis makes a desperate decision

Also In Vikings: Valhalla season 3 episode 4, Leif heads to Greece and will Harald ever leave Constantinople?

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Assassin's Creed Mirage's comparatively tiny map is great news for a series that needs more focus

Baghdad will be closer to Revelation's Constantinople and Unity's Paris, Ubisoft says.

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The Assassin's Creed Mirage map is roughly the same size as Revelations' Constantinople

The next Assassin's Creed will be nowhere near as big as Odyssey or Valhalla

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Broken pagan statue of Greek god Pan unearthed at early church ruins in Istanbul

A marble statue of the Greek god Pan was found in "backfill" at an archaeological site in Istanbul that probably came from elsewhere in the ancient city.

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Hidden tunnel and rooms unearthed under 1,500-year-old church in Istanbul

Archaeologists have excavated subterranean rooms and a tunnel under an early church in Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

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Symbolism, history and nationalism put Erdogan in strong position ahead of presidential runoff

Emotion trumped economics in the 2023 Turkish presidential campaign, forcing the opposition to embrace nationalism ahead of Sunday’s runoff. But President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was ahead of the curve, using a mix of nationalist rhetoric, pan-Islamic heroism and historical references in a bid to enter his third decade in power.

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A hundred years ago, at a meeting of the political committee of the Near East Conference, experts announced that an agreement had been reached between Turkey and Britain regarding the Gallipoli cemeteries

The Hindu

Genocide resisters, long overlooked by history, step into the spotlight

The anniversary of the Armenian Genocide is marked every year on April 24. That was the date in 1915 when hundreds of Armenian community leaders were arrested by the government of the Ottoman Empire in the capital Constantinople, now known as Istanbul.

The Conversation

Five things you need to know about the Ottoman empire

For centuries empires were the dominant form of political organisation. In the west there is some degree of familiarity with the British, French and German empires, and the empires of Spain and Portugal. Not to mention the Romans or the Greeks. But one empire that sometimes gets forgotten, outside Turkey,…

The Conversation

Russia's invasion of Ukraine threatens a cultural heritage the two countries share, including Saint Sophia Cathedral

More than 160 Ukrainian cultural sites have been damaged or destroyed since Russia invaded the country in February 2022, according to UNESCO.

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Turkey Tells The UN: Call Me Türkiye

Everyone knows that Istanbul was Constantinople, but now Turkey is Türkiye — at least at the United Nations.

The Conversation

Two Orthodox Christian countries at war – here's an explanation of the faith tradition shared by Russia and Ukraine

President Vladimir Putin’s decision to attack Ukraine has split the Orthodox Church.

The Conversation

Why church conflict in Ukraine reflects historic Russian-Ukrainian tensions

As Russia amasses troops on the Ukrainian border in preparation for a potential invasion, tensions between the two countries are also playing out through a conflict in the Orthodox Church.

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