The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, ...

A list for history lovers, curious minds and anyone fascinated by lost empires, ancient power and the stories that still ...

In Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse, Luke Kemp smashes the Overton window out of its frame, then knocks down the whole wall around it. Quite a panorama comes into view as a ...

Have you ever wondered what it felt like to walk through the bustling markets of ancient Rome or stand beneath the towering ...

Throughout history, housing materials have served not just as shelter but as cultural signatures. A city’s skyline often reveals the story of its ...

From the rise of Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BCE to the vast dominion of Darius and Xerxes, the First Persian ...

Here are 15 supposedly “basic” trivia questions most adults can’t actually answer. Let’s see how many you get right. Many ...

Across caves, jungles, and deserts, archaeologists are piecing together traces of societies that slipped from written history ...

The so-called Gaza ceasefire was not a genuine cessation of hostility, but a strategic, cynical shift in the Israeli genocide and ongoing campaign of destruction. Starting on October 10, the first day ...

According to the 1922 British census, Jews were the majority of residents of Jerusalem, outnumbering Moslems with 33,971 Jews to 13, 413 Moslems.

Evan Sisay and Matazel Tizazu are descendants of Ethiopian Jews whose families fled political and military upheaval in ...

Limpopo reminds you that Africa’s story did not begin with colonisation, but began here, in the stones, the sky, the hills, ...