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

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

Korah was one of the first charismatic demagogues in history to use the gullibility of the masses to advance his own selfish ...

Rolla Selbak, Plestia Alaqad, and Ahmed Shihab-Eldin to discuss ‘The Visitor’ and how cinema is reclaiming Palestinian ...

In 1796, when slavery remained both legal and common in New York, a white man named Aquila Giles set out to free Hannah, a 30-year-old woman he enslaved, and her daughter, Abigail, who was about 5.

Ca. 2300–2000 b.c. The head likely depicts a Mesopotamian ruler and is one of the earliest known life-size lost-wax metal sculptures to survive. It had been thought that the head was virtually solid, ...

The coast of western Australia is littered with shipwrecks with terrifying stories, but none may be as horrific as that of Batavia. Mutiny, murder, and slavery among its survivors lasted for months ...

The team sequenced the genomes of the Umm el-Marra equids and two hemippes that survived into the early twentieth century as well as the genome of an 11,000-year-old hemippe discovered at Göbekli Tepe ...

Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The International Criminal Court on Thursday confirmed charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against Uganda's fugitive warlord Joseph Kony in absentia. Kony is being ...

A migrant who re-entered the UK by small boat after being removed to France under the Government’s ‘one in, one out’ deal has been deported again. The Home Office confirmed the Iranian man’s departure ...