The Basilica Cistern in Istanbul is almost 1500 years old. I’m writing this in Atlanta, a city that’s barely 180 years old. Time will destroy you if you think about it too much. Istanbul is a ...

The subterranean cistern in the heart of historic Istanbul is hosting the 2018 Yeditepe Biennial this spring under the auspices of the Presidency of the Turkish Republic. Anadolu Agency is global ...

The Basilica Cistern is Istanbul's largest surviving Byzantine cistern and one of its most unique historic sites. Constructed in 532 for Justinian I, this sprawling underground water reservoir –which ...

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The youngest brother of Britain’s King Charles on Tuesday visited the famed Basilica Cistern Museum in the heart of Istanbul’s historic Fatih district. Officials from the Istanbul city government and ...

Gingerly descending 52 steps, I enter a vast cavernous space, as magnificent as a cathedral. The space is cool, as though it were air-conditioned, and I can hear strains of soft music. Wooden ...

Join Istanbul-based poet and writer Pelin Batu as she explores a museum bursting with history, myth and legend. Built in the 6th Century for the eastern Roman Empire from older building fragments, The ...

Istanbul is where East meets West, where history and modernity collide. The city was also built along one of the world’s most active fault lines. In the next 30 years, geophysicists predict Istanbul ...

ISTANBUL, TURKEY—While restoring the eighteenth-century Nuruosmaniye Mosque, located near Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, workers from Foundations Istanbul Provincial discovered an Ottoman-era cistern. “We ...

Gingerly descending 52 steps, I enter a vast cavernous space, as magnificent as a cathedral. The space is cool, as though it were air-conditioned, and I can hear strains of soft music. Wooden ...