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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

By M.S. A FEW days ago Andrew Sullivan published a rather distorted map that misrepresents the history of land transfers from Palestinian to Jewish control in the territory of Israel and Palestine ...

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 ...