From a Persian prince to the American “jeweler to the stars,” the world’s largest cut blue diamond has a lengthy history.

Istanbul's Topkapi Palace will open a new museum later this year featuring the "world's most extensive porcelain collection," with rare Chinese ceramics from the Yuan and Ming dynasties taking center ...

Sultans in the Ottoman Empire loved to eat. In the 15th century, Topkapi Palace boasted a kitchen staff of 100 people, a number that grew to 500 during the 16th-century reign of Suleiman the ...

This plan should be called Operation Mehmed the Conqueror, honoring the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, who, after conquering ...

Small entities might once again need to relearn how to hedge between great powers. One forgotten highborn woman from history provides some ancient realist lessons.

While arranging the books in my father’s library, I came across a novel that I was gifted a long time back and totally forgot about. It was ...

The Qadam station was the workhorse of the iconic Hejaz Railway that was built under the Ottoman Empire’s Sultan Abdulhamid II in the early 1900s, linking Muslim pilgrims from Europe and Asia ...

There are plenty of palaces and pavilions dotted along the Bosphorus Strait that are open for visitors to explore—from the sprawling former residences of Ottoman Sultans to the last home of ...