Discover 10 fascinating board games that have entertained people across the millennia, from chess and mahjong to the Royal Game of Ur.

A currency shortage in late medieval Europe hindered growth, but gold from West African empires provided the solution.

Buy Ottoman Empire: Parade of the Janissaries (Yeniceri) with the commander's horse by Levni Levni as a fine art print. ✓ High-quality reproduction

The Janissaries, elite soldiers of the Ottoman Empire, rose from enslaved boys to power brokers before their dramatic fall in the Auspicious Incident of 1826.

Roman amulets survived the rise of Christianity. Patricia Kret studied 300 of them and found how crosses, Bible verses and old habits blended.

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'Roman Scotland: Life on the Edge of Empire' will reshape our understanding of Scotland’s relationship with the Roman world.    This exhibition will bring

As the first and last Orientalist painter of the Ottoman Empire, Osman Hamdi Bey had the unique opportunity to observe the East from within. Rather than de...

Ahmad Joudeh is a ballet dancer of unusual grace and grit. He was born stateless in a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, Syria. He has traveled far on the power of his dreams and the elegance of hi...

Built a year earlier than the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1453, the Rumelia Castle marks the determination of Sultan Mehmet II to capture the city. It stands right across the Anat…

A modest Roman bathhouse on Turkey's southern coast spent its retirement very differently from how it began. Constructed in the late 2nd or early 3rd century CE, it stopped functioning as a bath somet...