In 1940, at the height of World War II, Italy invaded Egypt from its colony in Libya. The region later fell under the power ...

Most of the pottery nuclei have since been dated to around the Hellenistic period (333-63BC) or the later Roman to Byzantine periods ... possibly dating back to the Persian(535-333 B.C.) or Babylonian ...

I thought we might be on to a winner with this book after the opening sentence. ‘From an early age,’ Simon Mayall writes, ‘I ...

The creator behind popular AI-generated historical videos on TikTok spoke with Newsweek about the public's interest in the past.

ANALYSIS: Building on previous initiatives with Vietnam’s communist regime, Pope Francis’ recent gestures of dialogue have ...

The sudden political developments in Syria have the Greek community and Orthodox Christians on alert, asking for the support ...

And this chariot was found in a very distant province, right on the far eastern edge of the empire, somewhere on the borders of modern Tajikistan and Afghanistan. It's part of a huge hoard of gold and ...

In the province of Hatay, in southern Turkey, there is a mountain range locally known as Nur Dağları. Arabs call it Jabal ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The story of the three dogs on the roof of a north Springfield home continues as the owner speaks out. She ...

Originally, the West was the Catholic Western Roman Empire, with its capital in Rome, while the East was the Eastern Orthodox ...

Death of Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyám. 1154: Nicholas Breakspear is elected Pope Adrian IV, the ...

Other anniversaries in 2025. January 7 marks the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attack in Paris on the Charlie Hebdo ...