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 ...

The Long Tradition of Debt Cancellation in Mesopotamia and Egypt from 3000 to 1000 BC Debt cancellation in the land of Canaan in the first millennium BC Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the ...

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 ...

The deadly blaze at New Lucky House that killed five people and injured 43 shows that fire safety laws will not save residents unless they are enforced. While amending the Fire Safety (Buildings ...

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 ...