In May 1453, the Ottomans under Sultan Mehmed II brought down the great walls of Constantinople after weeks of siege. This one-minute journey with Google Earth traces the city’s defenses, the decisive ...

Conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204. Credit: David Aubert, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain The Fourth Crusade against Constantinople in 1204 is seen as one of the most crucial ...

Constantinople stood against sieges and attacks for many centuries, until finally new technology—the big cannons of the Ottoman Empire—brought down the Byzantine Empire’s capital. The fall of ...

Many years after the destruction of the great libraries of the ancient world, such as the libraries of Pergamum and Alexandria, the Imperial Library of Constantinople preserved precious Ancient Greek ...

This repository is based on our IJCV publication TOFlow: Video Enhancement with Task-Oriented Flow (PDF). It contains pre-trained models and a demo code. It also includes the description and download ...

Anzac Day, 25 April, is one of Australia’s most important national occasions. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First ...

The Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople by Phillips, Jonathan (Jonathan P.) Publication date 2004 Topics Crusades -- Fourth, 1202-1204, Istanbul (Turkey) -- History -- Siege, 1203-1204 ...