There’s always talk about who the richest man is, with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk constantly being at the front of the ...

Ancient statues, Roman coins and other artifacts from a sunken city were pulled from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of ...

Ancient Egypt, one of the world’s earliest and most influential civilizations, rose along the fertile banks of the Nile River ...

Two of Germany’s major allies, Italy and Japan, made similar efforts to recruit Muslims on their side during World War II. Germany’s enemies, Britain, France and the Soviet Union, presented themselves ...

As the Third Reich crumbled, so did the hopes of Brotherhood that Nazi allies would unleash a storm of violence upon Egypt ...

Ministers in the Israeli government have in recent months pushed for more rapid development of these settlements, explicitly as a rebuke to claims of Palestinian sovereignty.

If you consider the Roman Empire to have ended in 476 and count only emperors who were old enough to rule for their entire ...

It was an administrative transfer of power in 1947 that saw territories in the Gulf region change hands from the Indian ...

Modern Uganda, largely by way of unintended consequences, has been continuously bedevilled by its geo-strategic placement in the Nile Valley.

Archaeologists made the discovery through genetic analysis of remains from two early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries, both dating to ...

Is it hopeless? Almost. Probably. But maybe not. As Sir Tytler so accurately illuminated in the quote above, nations rise and fall. That’s almost become axiomatic. But it is historically true. It ...

An Inside Look at Locarno’s British Postwar Cinema Retrospective, Including a Former Festival Winner Curator Ehsan Khoshbakht explains his selection, the roles of ruins and children in 1945-1960 ...