The First Egyptian–Ottoman War or First Syrian War (1831–1833) was a military conflict between the Ottoman Empire and Egypt brought about by Muhammad Ali Pasha's demand to the Sublime Porte for ...

fragment all the states of the region such as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Sudan into paper statelets and through their disunion and weakness to guarantee United States read about the great nations, ...

“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina Museum of Art, is a luxurious introduction to the complex, symbiotic relationship between two rival maritime empires. It’s an import ...

Ottoman Empire by Train (Channel 4) sounds terribly romantic, doesn’t it? I was so taken by the title that I began googling Orient-Express journeys to Istanbul, but it turns out that five days ...

Later acquisitions came increasingly from well-documented archaeological excavations. The civilisation of ancient Egypt arose in the fourth millennium BC and only waned in the first four centuries AD, ...

It's not enough to buy your ticket - there's a dress code. The archaeologist had a head start, on Ottoman Empire By Train. Her pink hair would be the envy of any dapper traveller. But as for the ...

Finally, this volume deals with the Ottoman Empire’s 1565 attempt to eradicate the Order with that year’s Great Siege of Malta. The author draws on the work of the Order’s official historians, Giacomo ...

Not until 1913 would some parts of Europe be free from Muslim rule. The defeat of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 led to the secularisation of Turkey and the Turkish leader Kemal Ataturk’s abolition of the ...

The term Egyptian cotton gets thrown around a lot as shorthand for very fancy sheets, but not all Egyptian cotton is created equal. Some sheets made from Egyptian cotton will be certified as such ...

Their findings paint a more comprehensive picture of ancient Egyptian life Julia Binswanger The 4,500-year-old pyramids of Giza are the backdrop for "Forever Is Now," which features sculptures ...