The Rashidun Caliphate covered over 3 million square miles of land - almost 6% of the earth's land-mass.. This empire began when Mohammad died in 632 AD and his followers scrambled to acquire his ...

The Byzantine Empire at the beginning of the 7th century, shortly before the Muslim expansion. Credit: Derfel73 / ArdadN / Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons Indeed, Emperor Constans II was unwilling ...

The Rashidun Caliphate lasted for approximately 30 years and during that time "extended from the Arabian Peninsula, ... It was the largest empire in history up until that time." ...

On 1 November the new government abolished the sultanate – and with it the Ottoman empire. Vahideddin made an ignominious departure from Istanbul onboard a British battleship on 17 November.

The plague of Justinian, named after the Roman emperor who reigned from A.S. 527 to 565, arrived in the Roman Empire in A.D. 542 and didn’t disappear until A.D. 755.

A researcher reflects on his friendship with a down-on-luck adulterer–cattle smuggler—his primary contact in the field. For my doctoral research, I spent a year studying local communities in the north ...

Researchers have identified a "hugely significant" ancient battle site with the help of declassified U.S. spy satellite images. A team of archaeologists from the U.K.'s Durham University and Iraq ...

The 18th dynasty of ancient Egypt, which reigned from about 1550 B.C. to 1292 B.C., was the longest lasting.

In the case of Afghanistan, it was never truly conquered. It may have been invaded, but even suggesting that it was “occupied” would be a stretch as the remoteness of the land made it hard for ...

Koran/Qu’ran: The holy book of Islam, recorded by the prophet Muhammad beginning in the year 610 A.D. Muslims consider it to be the word of God.Islam teaches that the Christian and Hebrew ...

Muslim forces of the Rashidun Caliphate captured the Levant – a region of the Middle East – from the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 636. Wikimedia Commons ...