In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift.

Lead exposure has left its toxic fingerprints all over history. We’ve come a long way in reducing its presence, but […] ...

LONDON — Like examining the growth rings of an ancient tree, scientists have developed a new way to analyze the “twigs” of ...

They carved up the Middle East map with the stroke of a pen ... interests out of the remains of the defunct Ottoman Empire. Ethnic, religious and topographical considerations were ignored or ...

They carved up the Middle East map with the stroke of a pen ... interests out of the remains of the defunct Ottoman Empire. Ethnic, religious and topographical considerations were ignored or ...

They carved up the Middle East map with the stroke of a pen, and we have lived with the consequences ever since. The San Remo Conference in 1920 codified colonial interests out of the remains of the ...

Sol Invictus was the official sun god of the later Roman Empire; the Roman emperor Aurelian made his cult an official religion on 25 December AD 274. It is worth noting that, in the Gospels, Christ’s ...

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also ... were used to map the general changes in the ...

Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate ... were used to map the general changes in the size and number ...

There were mixed reactions across social media, many of which reflected the ongoing sectarian, ethnic, and political polarisation in the Arab world. Social media users in Arab countries have been ...