The woman, holding a slender black smoking pipe, has much higher nalin than her companion, accentuating the height ...

Turkey's first lady hailed the Ottoman harems from Turkey's imperial past as "a school for preparing women for life," AFP reports. The harem is a much romanticized part of Imperial palaces in Turkey, ...

Qatar Museums has announced the launch of the Lusail Museum Conversations, an ongoing series of public lectures and events.

One of the greatest empires in history, the Ottomans reigned for more than 600 years before crumbling on the battlefields of World War I. The tughra (insignia) of the 16th-century Ottoman emperor ...

King's College London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. For centuries empires were the dominant form of political organisation. In the west there is some degree of familiarity with ...

Much has been written about the immediate reasons behind Turkish president Recep Erdogan’s move to change the character of Hagia Sophia from a museum back to a mosque. While factors such as Erdogan’s ...

Beginning in 1915, Armenians across the Ottoman Empire were forced from their homes and marched into the desert with no food, water, or destination. Men were executed first, leaving women and children ...