Empire

The history of the area can be described as a layered cake of ancient civilizations & empires stacked one atop the other

How far can one go in the name of a career - a process in the United States has attracted attention, not only because the main role in it is for an actor from a popular series. Jussie Smollett from "Empire" said he was the victim of an attack three years ago, but the court believed he was lying.

As the lands of Turkey hosted numerous civilizations and empires for thousands of years, the country still carries traces of history. There are more than 50 unearthed ancient theaters in Anatolian lands, remaining from the Greek and Roman periods. 

If 2020 had been coronavirus-free, it would have been difficult to envision a Donald Trump defeat or to see the global economy operating under strict statist control fueled by printed money. These are only two developments that are bound to cause a kind of lasting change that has not yet been fully realized.

As a historic home to great civilizations like the Roman and Ottoman empires, Turkey has some of the world's best museums. Click through for our top 20...

Istanbul, which has been the capital of the Eastern Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Empires for many ages throughout history, continues to draw the interest of culture and art aficionados with cisterns that were built to meet the city's water needs in those periods. 

Archaeologists have discovered a huge water cistern plastered on the inside with pink waterproof mortar in the fortress of Rusocastro, a major stronghold which changed hands many times between the Byzantine and Bulgarian Empires in the Middle Ages, and whose ruins are stiuated in today's Burgas District in Southeast Bulgaria.

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Recently published by Cambridge University Press, "A History of the Ottoman Empire" by Douglas Howard, Professor of History at Calvin College in Michigan, is the first single-volume history of the Ottomans to appear in a number of years. 

Bulgaria faces the challenge of being "pushed... toward a geopolitical sandwich of former empires to the east", President (2012-2017) Rosen Plevneliev said on Sunday.

Plevneliev, who left the office on January 22, told private broadcaster NOVA TV that Bulgarians should be aware of the "power of Russian propaganda".

A giant picture of the beloved Zimbabwean lion killed by an American trophy hunter was among images projected August 1 onto the Empire State Building in New York in a dazzling display.