Built in 1393 by Yıldırım Bayezid, the cemetery, which bears traces of the 14th century, contains the remains of janissaries. Each grave is marked with structures symbolizing the janissaries’ hats, ...

MAYBE the most famous poem based on a painting is WH Auden’s Musée des Beaux Arts from December 1938. Do you remember it?

Tunis was nominally ruled by a pasha appointed by the Ottoman Sultan in Istanbul but, by the time Ward arrived in 1605, the real power lay in the hands of Uthman Dey, leader of the janissary soldiers ...

A lot has changed since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020: not just the way we approach our health and safety, but also the way children and students attend school and university. This ...

The Arthashastra, an ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, military strategy, and economic policy attributed to Kautilya (also known as Chanakya or Vishnugupta), is a foundational text in ...