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 ...

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 ...

Mr Goldberg argued that the problem with this map is that it represents the territory in 1946 under the name "Palestine", implying that there had been a Palestinian state which was then taken over ...

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 ...