The director of a Catholic aid organization that assists Eastern Christians warns of continued persecution against Armenians ...

Wes Anderson enlists a star-studded cast in ‘The Phoenician Scheme,’ turbulent times call for a rural retreat in HBO’s ...

Greece marks May 19th ... twentieth century. Using Christian rebels colluding with the Russian Army as a pretext, the Ottoman government announced a policy of property confiscation and deportations ...

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.

Cyprus Political Map with capital Nicosia ... The Ruins of the Ancient City of Kition at Larnaca, Cyprus - Ottoman Empire 19th Century The ruins of the ancient city of Kition (Kittim) at Larnaca, ...

The theory gathered pace and was further promoted by American Army officer John Cleves Symmes during the early 19th ... century map and modern pictures of pyramids confirm a lost civilisation lies ...

Despite the vast reach of the Ottoman Empire, from North Africa to Eastern Europe, one powerful neighbor remained unconquered: Persia. In this video, we explore the reasons why the Ottomans never ...

founded by Osman I in the 13th century, was a major part of the Sunni Islamic caliphate under the Ottoman dynasty in the Ottoman Empire. At its peak, the Ottoman Empire ruled Egypt, Greece ...

While studying 18th-century maps, Bengtsson noticed a strange rectangle — and brought himself to the site. A surveyor marked the location as "Klosterkullen," or "monastery hill," on a 1760 map.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Skeletal remains found along the Jersey shore have now been linked to a 19th-century shipwreck. The findings are all thanks to the work of the New Jersey State Police and ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...