Osman Bayezid Osmanoglu, the 44th and last head of the Ottoman family ... there now remains no heir to the family that once ruled the vast Ottoman Empire, as he never married and had no children.

The ceremonial helmet of Sultan al-Ashraf Kansu al-Ghuri, the last sultan of the Mamluk Sultanate ... and was under their control. When the Ottoman-Mamluk wars began, Sultan al-Ashraf Kansu ...

Sultans in the Ottoman Empire loved to eat. In the 15th century, Topkapi Palace boasted a kitchen staff of 100 people, a number that grew to 500 during the 16th-century reign of Suleiman the ...

Modern-day Turkey is accepted as the birthplace of the Ottoman Empire and visiting the many ... sprawling former residences of Ottoman Sultans to the last home of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the ...