News

Ancient Byzantine tomb believed to be 1,500 years old discovered in Syria — under a home
A contractor in Syria discovered an ancient underground Byzantine tomb complex believed to be 1,500 years old below a ...
Middle East Eye2y
Coffee, couches, towels and trousers: The Ottoman empire's great cultural legacies
The empire’s motto, "The Eternal State" or Devleti-i Ebed-muddet, reveals the level of Ottoman ambition ... diplomat describing England in the 1500s, and that during the second siege of Vienna ...
The Economist2y
The Ottoman empire fell a century ago. Or did it?
The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922. By Ryan Gingeras. Allen Lane; 368 pages; $47.95 and £30 As it turned out, more than six centuries of Ottoman rule ended with a whimper rather than ...
Chicago Tribune2y
Cornell Fleischer, scholar of Ottoman Empire and Islamic world, dies at age 72
Cornell Fleischer, who specialized in the history of the Ottoman Empire and the greater Islamic world at the University of Chicago, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship — frequently referred to as ...