Rail travel once linked Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, until war and air traffic shut it down. Now, major reconstruction plans aim to revive it over the next 15 years ...

Time heals all wounds, it is said, and that certainly is the case in Russia. Moscow has unveiled a new statue of Joseph ...

In a world of shifting borders and fleeting regimes, one truth remains enduring: civilizations remember. Unlike nation-states ...

It may surprise you but rise of ISIS was predicted way back during late 80s Shocked But it s true A Bulgarian fortune teller who died 20 years ago warned of the rise of ISIS by claiming there would be ...

The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury ...

In this episode, David explores Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, highlighting its historical, cultural, and gastronomic experiences. The journey begins at the Eternal Flame in the ...

That lasted three generations before it fell apart. When the Ottomans seized Nicaea in 1331, they changed its name to İznik. They took the Hagia Sophia and turned it into a mosque.

In 1992, Mukarram Jah, the last Nizam of Hyderabad, married former Miss Turkey Manolya Onur, who was also a member of the Ottoman dynasty, that once ruled Turkey under the Ottoman Empire.

Population surveillance. The carrying of identification while traveling. Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025, but this was life in the Ottoman Empire 200 ...

GUEST: I got it from my grandmother's, um, closet when she died. GUEST: It would have been 50 years ago this year. Never had seen it before. I just think it's really pretty. GUEST ...

So rich is Istanbul in historic buildings of every stripe, especially Byzantine churches and colonnaded cisterns, Ottoman mosques, palaces, fortresses and grand waterfront mansions, that it’s ...