From gilded palace gates and formidable city entrances to pretty portals into sacred places, we take a look at the most ...

The Old City of Jerusalem is of great importance for the three monotheistic religions. It contains many sacred sites: the ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that she intends to move ahead with a vote on a resolution that labels the deaths of more than a million Armenians during World War I as genocide. The resolution ...

The Mughal reign has been much in debates, but it is usually seen from above. : Commerce and Everyday Life in the Mughal World (Penguin India) looks at a part of it, the economy, from the ground up, ...

Historian Marc David Baer calls the Ottomans "very much a European empire" and "the unacknowledged part of the story the West ...

The actor, singer, and dancer almost retired in the 1960s--but not before allegedly being offered the role of James Bond.

Armenia will continue its reforms according to its needs, including purchases of weapons and military equipment. But [the Armenian-Azerbaijani agreements in Washington on] August 8 is an important ...