Helen Davey, a 39-year-old mother of two from England, was suffocated to death after an Ottoman bed malfunction and trapper her underneath, raising concerns about the beds.

Despite the vast reach of the Ottoman Empire, from North Africa to Eastern Europe, one powerful neighbor remained unconquered: Persia. In this video, we explore the reasons why the Ottomans never ...

Architectural transformations in the eighteenth-century Ottoman capital Istanbul are usually interpreted as expressions of an overarching process of cultural westernization that began in the wake of ...