The Greek genocide and the Pontic genocide instigated by the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish national movement is a dark ...

An exhibition shows the beauty and disparity of maps in a time of rapid discovery, when the shape of the known world was ever ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

By the mid 19th century, the Jewish population of the region, then controlled by the Ottoman empire, was small ... Palestine had disappeared from the map. Half the Palestinian population, some ...

Ukraine’s tragic geography has long made it the target of imperial ambitions, epitomized by the prize of Crimea. As the war ...

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: ...

But it was also cartography in the service of empire. When complete ... “This was the first map under the British administration: a vital snapshot of 19th-century Cyprus,” says Dr Christos Chalkias.

The photo appears in an album labeled “Constantinople” and is attributed to the famed Armenian photography duo, the Abdullah Brothers, active in the Ottoman Empire during the 19th century ... of ...

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A fresh clue to the lost colonists’ fate emerged when curators backlit this 16th-century map of what is now coastal ... that seeded both the British Empire and the United States.