A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital. The station was an essential link between Europe and the Arabian Peninsula during the Ottoman Empire and then a national ...

Professor Alice Roberts takes a train ride that covers 600 years of the Ottoman Empire. Her mission is to learn about this vast empire that started with a dream in the 14th century. Alice Roberts ...

Alice also catches a train across the Taurus Mountains to Konya, to learn about whirling dervishes and the Ottoman leaders' elaborately decorative tombs.