It doesn’t sound as if they had to give her the hard sell. “This was a co-organization between ourselves and our colleagues at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (in New York City),” says Dr. Kristen ...

A display of manuscripts in the Met’s “Africa & Byzantium” show. Photo by Anna-Marie Kellen, courtesy of The Met In the 14th Century, Ibn Battuta left his native Tangiers to travel the world all the ...

Once the Ancient Greek city of Byzantium, when the Roman Emperor Constantine moved the capital of his Empire to the Bosporus strait, it was renamed Constantinople in his honour. For centuries, many ...