This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological ...

At school, Sommer planned to specialize in sciences, but one day his history teacher showed pupils a map ... day Turkey, recreating Alexander’s progress from the ancient city of Troy to the location ...

Some national borders are determined by natural phenomena like seas, mountains and rivers. Most, however, are created by ...

Licensed in tourism, Laura loves travelling and discovering new places, cultures and people; and of course, one of her favourite places to enjoy a good holiday is Turkey, where she even worked as a ...

BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of ...

Tourists have left, schools are closed. Santorini, source of 2% of the Greece GDP, has been evacuated. There has been continuous shaking for two weeks. The epicentre is 20 km from Santorini and ...

There’s more to Turkey than sun, sand and cosmopolitan cities – Maryann Wright takes to the mountains of Sarıkamış-Kars to discover the country's snowy secret ...

administrator of the Apostolic Vicariate of Anatolia, two years after a devastating earthquake struck Turkey and Syria on 6 February 2023. The cathedral in Iskenderun (Alexandretta) still bears ...

Homo sapiens first reached Europe some 45,000 years ago, having trekked thousands of miles from Africa. These ancestors are ...