In Search of Constantinople is a joint publication of the Swedish Research Institute in İstanbul and Kitap Publishing House The conspirators were dressed as priests. Daggers under their arms, they blended into the crowd of clergymen who gathered in front of the Ivory Gate after dark. During the third watch of the night, they made their way into the Great Palace with the rest. Papias, the official in charge of searching visitors, was himself in the plot, so it all went according to plan… On that ...