Ottoman coins, Roman map of Palestine recovered from smugglers at Cairo airport. Nevine El-Aref, Monday 8 Dec 2014. Collection of 48 antique coins and Roman-era map of Palestine taken from ...

Still, a version of this map has been circulating for almost 20 years, supposedly showing how “Historic Palestine” had been taken over by Israel.As a technical matter, the map is a confusing ...

Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East.

The map above is from a 1929 TIME article titled “Islam vs. Israel”—even though, as the map makes clear, in 1929 there was no country called Israel. (On a desktop, roll over to zoom; on a ...

Palestine has seen several wars in the two decades since the 2000 Camp David Summit and, “for this talk in particular, I'm interested in the wars launched by Israel after 2000 in occupied ...

The Ottoman Empire controlled the region for about 400 years before its defeat, along with Germany, in World War I. Britain was given control of Palestine by the League of Nations in 1920, under ...

The Ottoman Empire notably ruled the territory of historical Palestine from 1516 to 1917 and the archive contains documents dated to pre-1917. The archive is currently located at the Mithaq ...

ISRAELIS and Palestinians are amid the fiercest and bloodiest violence since 2014 with UN officials warning tensions could escalate into an "all-out war", but why are Israel and Palestine at war?

British troops took control of the territory from the Ottoman Empire at the end of October 1917. Jewish immigration to Palestine A large-scale Jewish migration to Palestine began, accelerated by ...