Kidnapped from her Slavic homeland and sold into sex slavery as a child, Hürrem Sultan, also known as Roxelana, eventually ...

Love it or hate it, Turkish coffee is a rite of passage. But it's not your standard cup of joe. Here's how Rick Steves says ...

Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map ...

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Once considered lost, the Rosebank Distillery has been thoughtfully brought back to life following its closure in 1993, overcoming significant challenges in the process. The jury was impressed by the ...

Deep in southeastern Albania, a tiny hamlet holds five churches that have one of the most magnificent concentrations of Orthodox Christian fresco art in the world. From the outside, the churches ...

DeepSeek is backed by High-Flyer Capital Management, a Chinese quantitative hedge fund that uses AI to inform its trading decisions. AI enthusiast Liang Wenfeng co-founded High-Flyer in 2015 ...

“I basically do the architecture version of what he did,” Stone says now with a shrug. Stone has the look of someone who’s spent years in the desert, and even longer thinking about why things are the ...

The Turkish series on the 16th-century Ottoman monarch Suleiman the Magnificent certainly tries. From the Arab world to the Balkans, the story of the sultan’s harem and his romance with a Slav beauty ...

The stock market's tech titans stumbled in the first quarter, but 2025 will still be another winning year for the Magnificent Seven, Goldman Sachs said. In a recent note, chief equity strategist ...

“Deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. M.R. Srinivasan, a legendary architect of India’s nuclear energy programme and a Padma Vibhushan recipient. His visionary leadership and scientific ...