Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent’s heart was not buried with his body. His body, as AnslaMed explains, went back to Constantinople, to be laid to rest beside his favorite wife, a former ...

Over the years, it has made a good doorstop, or sometimes a makeshift table. A 16th-century portrait of the Ottoman sultan Suleiman I But it used to be much more than that. This block was o ...

Hurrem helped persuade Suleiman (perhaps correctly) that Ibrahim was flying too high and could become a rival. One morning in 1536, in the bedroom next to the sultan’s, Ibrahim was found strangled.