This recipe is from the 19th century, though Ottoman soldiers had been making warrior’s halva since at least the 15th century, and likely for quite a while before that. They would make and eat ...

Deep inside a medieval fortified monastery in Mount Athos, researchers are for the first time tapping a virtually unknown treasure — thousands of Ottoman-era manuscripts.

The second half of the 15th century was a dramatic period in world history with Constantinople falling to the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmet II, the Reconquista in Iberia, and Columbus ...

See About archive blog posts. These photographs of a 15th century Ottoman scroll of the Koran come from historian Rachel Leow, who took them at the Asian Civilizations Museum in Singapore.

The ruthless brutality of Vlad III of Walachia, forged by the 15th-century clash between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, would partly inspire Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel ...

The Ottoman Empire was one of the main powers of the 15th and 16th centuries. Its colossal dimensions guaranteed it a military surplus that allowed it to recover from any defeat in a very short time, ...

Pope Francis is set to canonize an estimated 800 Italians, who were forced to choose between Islam or death during a 15-century siege by Ottoman soldiers.

Researchers have found medieval cannonballs from culverins that were most likely used by Wallacian Voivode Vlad III Dracula, more commonly known as Vlad the Impaler, during his bloody battle in ...

Prince Vlad III of Wallachia. Vlad Tepes. Vlad the Impaler. Vlad Dracula. These days there's a thin line between the historical 15th-century figure who fought the Ottoman armies and the seductive ...