Mehmed IV wanted to live up to, and even surpass, the legacy of his forefather Mehmed II, who had secured the Ottomans' ...

Coffee must have been the secret weapon of Greek, Slav, and Albanian mercenary units, the stratioti, that fought together throughout Europe in the 15th to 18th centuries. The stratioti must have ...

Built on a limestone foundation, Valletta housed defense systems in deep tunnels during WWII that saved Malta and Allied ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

President Donald Trump’s controversial plan to relocate Gaza’s population and rebuild it as the "Riviera of the Middle East" sparks global debate, echoing Gaza’s history of displacement.

Trump’s proposal for the U.S. to take “ownership” over Gaza and displace Palestinians added to uncertainty over the fate of ...

Dionysios Solomos was a Greek poet from Zante. He is best known for having written the Imnos eis tin Eleftherían ("Hymn to ...

No thread is brighter than that connecting East and West. The exchange of ideas, trade, and philosophies has shaped our world ...

Leonardo Da Vinci is known for the creation of iconic images like the Mona Lisa and the Vitruvian Man, but his designs ...

Samantha Power, leader of USAID during Joe Biden 's presidency, is used to disappointment and bleak powerlessness. But nothing prepared her for the agency being wiped out.

Today marks the 154th anniversary of the passing of Sheikh Shamil, the legendary Caucasian leader whose fierce resistance ...