Did you know that Dracula was real? Even more amazing, his tomb was never found despite his death hundreds of years ago.

After almost two centuries of providing critical logistic backup to soldiers in forbidding and desolate terrain, including in ...

On Feb. 2, 2025, Salama Marouf, head of Gaza's government media office, declared Gaza a “disaster zone” during a press ...

Before its destruction, it held approximately 20,000 books and was the third-largest ... The manuscripts date back to the Mamluk and Ottoman periods, spanning between 500 to 700 years ago, she ...

Gaza was once a crossroads of the ancient civilisations of the Nile and the Levant. The coastal strip was a trading and ...

Punctuated with vibrant Emerald Isle greens and whimsical clover motifs, this decorating trend has us feeling especially ...

It stands as one of the largest mosques in Nigeria, accommodating over 20,000 worshippers ... features stunning Ottoman-style minarets and a gold-plated dome. It also houses a library and an ...

Before that, they had been driven from their Anatolian mountain homeland by the Ottoman Turks during the ... the Khabur villages were home to 20,000 Assyrian Christians; today, only a few hundred ...

The stretch up the road from Marble Arch and its surrounding area have been a magnet for new arrivals from the Middle East since the 19th century and the time of the Ottoman Empire. Now home to ...

To finance his war efforts, he imposed a head tax on his subjects and expanded the Janissary corps from 12,000 to 20,000 soldiers. Meanwhile, Charles V entrusted the defense of Eastern Europe to his ...