Turning the pages of a manuscript copy of the Maʿrifetnāme, an 18th-century encyclopedia ... Brightly colored world maps, diagrams, and charts join the rendering of the afterlife within the manuscript ...

The archeological unit of the Civil Administration unearthed an eighteenth-century Ottoman village in the context of developmental work in the modern town of Beitar Illit south of Jerusalem.

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 ...

The Ottomans became one of the key subjects of the 18th and 19th century aesthetic and scientific movement known as Orientalism. Crucially, the Ottoman Empire was in part a European empire.

The five maps that follow illustrate how Crimea continued to change hands from the 18th century to the present. A vassal state of the Ottoman Empire since 1478, Crimea evolved into several ...