For over 300 years, the closely-guarded secrets of the Ottoman Empire's luminous tilework was lost, but its rediscovery has ...

At the turn of the 15th century, the Ottoman Empire was at the zenith of its power. However, its success did not go unnoticed ...

Prussia was undoubtedly one of the most important actors in Europe’s Early- and Late Modern periods. It has a fascinating ...

Historians’ dismissal of the continent’s Muslim legacy is helping to feed contemporary divisions By David Motadel In 1993, ...

Turkish President Erdogan has dismissed claims that Arabs ’stabbed Turkey in the back’ during World War One as ’nonsense’.

In 1945, a B-25 bomber on its way to Newark Airport in New Jersey crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building. Amazingly, the building suffered only minor damage. The Empire State ...

Protected by Rome and allowed to continue their religion, everything was fine until rebellion in Judaea led to a major change in the practice of their faith. By the beginning of the first century AD, ...