History

The world pattern, or as the Iranians would term it, Naqsh-e Jahan Square (Persian: میدان نقش جهان‎ (Maidān-e Naghsh-e Jahān); “Image of the World Square”),…

Malta is home to the world’s oldest free-standing structures. The Megalithic Temples of Malta (Maltese: It-Tempji Megalitiċi ta’ Malta) are monumental prehistoric buildings built between…

Hagia Sophia (/ˈhɑːɡiə soʊˈfiːə/; from Koinē Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, romanized: Hagía Sophía; Latin: Sancta Sophia, lit. ‘Holy Wisdom’), officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque (Turkish:…

The Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan (Arabic: مسجد ومدرسة السلطان حسن‎) is a huge Mamluk period mosque and madrassa situated in Cairo, Egypt, near the Citadel.…

The Mosque of Ibn Tulun (Arabic: مسجد إبن طولون‎, romanized: Masjid Ibn Ṭūlūn) is considered to be the second oldest active mosque in Egypt. This…

The Mosque of Amr ibn al-As (Arabic: جامع عمرو بن العاص‎), Egypt’s first Islamic structure, built by Amr ibn al-As, the leader of an invading…

The Amir Altinbugha al-Maridani Mosque, one of the finest 14th-century monuments, was built in 1340 by Amir (Prince) “Altunbugha al-Maridani”. It is a mosque dating…

Al-Rifa’i Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الرفاعي‎, transliterated also as Al-Rifai, Al-Refai, Al-Refa’i, El-Refa’i, and named in English: the Refaai Mosque) is one of Cairo’s largest mosques.…

The “free produce” movement was a boycott of any goods produced with slave labor. The free-produce movement was an international boycott of goods produced by…

The Temple of Hephaestus or Hephaisteion (also “Hephesteum”; Ancient Greek: Ἡφαιστεῖον, Greek: Ναός Ηφαίστου) or earlier as the Theseion (also “Theseum”; Ancient Greek: Θησεῖον, Greek:…

The Temple of Olympian Zeus (Greek: Ναός του Ολυμπίου Διός, Naós tou Olympíou Diós), is a former colossal temple at the center of the Greek…

Lahore Fort (Punjabi and Urdu: شاہی قلعہ‎:  ‘Shahi Qila’, or “Royal Fort”) was originally designed to protect the Northern-Western entrance to the walled, old city…