For thousands of years, Istanbul has marked the point where East meets West – a true crossroads of civilizations ... Empire collapsed in the 15th century, the Ottomans turned it into a mosque ...

A 15th Century manuscript containing the unusual ... surgical diagrams and some of the earliest anatomical images in western Europe. A particularly striking manuscript contains illustrations ...

This 15th century city is what visitors still find today, and is known as the old town. It’s considered one of the finest examples in Europe of medieval city planning and was declared a Unesco ...