Under the Byzantines, Hagia Sophia became the hub of Orthodox Christianity and the last standing symbol of their empire. But in 1453, when Ottoman sultan Mehmed II (a.k.a. Mehmed the Conqueror) ...

Retired museum director Taylan Sevil explained that the tombstone is a reused material from the old Ottoman period ... and a connection to the Ottoman Empire. Nicaea was the site of the First ...

The notorious pirate Barbarossa, who eventually went on to be an Admiral in the Ottoman Navy, was surprisingly half Greek.

Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the history of the Ottoman Empire, continues with ... think they solved a 4,500-year-old Stonehenge mystery ...

NARA--Artifacts recovered from an Ottoman Empire frigate that sank off Japan’s Kii Peninsula in the Meiji Era (1868-1912) were at risk of disintegrating until researchers hit upon the idea of ...

The Old Town of Corfu, on the Island of Corfu off the western ... were used for four centuries to defend the maritime trading interests of the Republic of Venice against the Ottoman Empire. In the ...

The Old Mosque, Old Bath and Süleyman Pasha Medrese were built in 1322. During its apogee in the 17th century, Safranbolu's architecture influenced urban development throughout much of the Ottoman ...

Fez hats were once a symbol of the Ottoman Empire. But after they were banned in Egypt in the 1950s, fez shops largely disappeared. We visited one of the last shops in Cairo, where Nasser Abd El ...