Had Ertugrul Osman, the exiled heir to the Ottoman throne, attended his own funeral this week, he would have been amused at the incongruity of the crowd. In one corner were a couple of old friends ...

Though accomplished as a painter, looking back on Osman Hamdi Bey as just an artist would be to hugely underappreciate his remarkable achievements in other fields. Born in 1842 to the Ottoman ...

Ertugrul Osman, who might have ruled the Ottoman Empire from a palace in Istanbul but instead spent most of his life in a walk-up apartment in Manhattan, died Wednesday night in Istanbul. He was 97.

Ertugrul Osman, who has died aged 97, should, technically speaking, have been addressed as His Imperial Highness Prince Ertugrul Osman Efendi. 27 September 2009 • 5:22pm Had events been otherwise his ...

The resonant sounds of The Newberry Consort filled the halls of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston and transported the audience across centuries of the Ottoman Empire on Sunday. The Newberry ...

The last of the six-part lecture series on Archaeology and Heritage Conservation saw Professor Dr Edhem Eldem, Boaziçi University, talk on Osman Hamdi Bey: An Ottoman Archaeologist, to a keen audience ...

Among the precious memorabilia exhibited from July to October last year in the exhibition Valletta and the Dominicans: A Common Journey at the Dominican priory in Valletta, there was a simple chalice ...

Though the era of empires has long since passed, descendants of families that once ruled the world remain, albeit largely stripped of their fame and fortune. For six centuries until the early 1900s, ...