Tumanbay, BBC Radio 4's news epic historical thriller series has begun its 10-week run. It's about History, court intrigue, assassinations, plots, betrayals, plague and insurrection, affecting ...
Beneath the verdant pools of Gan Ha-Shelosha lies a network of medieval tunnels that once powered the thriving sugar industry of the Mamluk Empire. Hewn into soft tufa rock along Nahal ‘Amal, the ...
A system of tunnels carved into the tuff of Nahal ‘Amal, dated to the 14th and 15th centuries, reveals the use of brackish water to generate mechanical energy, redefining the medieval industrial ...
"For sixty years, from 1260 to 1323, the Mamluk state in Egypt and Syria was at war with the Ilkhanid Mongols based in Persia. This is the first comprehensive study of the political and military ...
Abdel-Dayem stated that handicrafts are an essential element which presents the glory of Egyptian heritage, and is an indicator to local art innovation and uniqueness. Islamic designs and Mamluk ...
IN AUGUST 1516, on the plain of Marj Dabik in northern Syria, an Ottoman army smashed the forces of the Mamluk sultan of Cairo. The Turkish victory abruptly ended Cairo's 500-year domination of the ...
The Battle of Chaldiran soon led to the region’s other pivotal battle of the era. Having secured his empire’s eastern flank, the Ottoman Sultan Selim I could turn his attention to the southwest, where ...
In DC Conversations, Dr. Souraya Noujaim, Director of the Department of Islamic Arts at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, takes us inside ‘Mamluks: Legacy of an Empire’—a groundbreaking exhibition at Louvre ...
AMMAN — Tell Hisban, located in the Madaba Plains, represents the “granary of the empires”, noted an American archaeologist. The site, covering some eight hectares, had significant cereal production, ...
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