In the slaveholding South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. For abolitionists and African Americans, biblical Egypt served as a symbol of bondage and liberation.

Why is it 4723 in China, a mere 2018 in Ethiopia, 1447 in North Africa, and only 8 in Japan? The world's quirkiest calendars ...

Sibley went home and decided to conduct her own ancestral veneration, mixed with tarot and Neopaganism. She said she would ...

Donald Trump has become a greedy and politically combative president who wants everything he believes will ldquo;Make America ...

Instead, international law is used against Israel in a manner that perverts law and corrupts justice in transnational courts, ...

The Man in the High Castle refers to a specific individual working against both the American Reich and the Japanese Pacific ...

In North Africa, Egypt is one of the world's oldest nations, a land where history and modernity collide. From the pyramids of Giza to the Egyptian Museum of Civilisation, from the Citadel of Qaitbay ...

Study of ancient cuneiform cylinders reveals how Nebuchadnezzar II restored Kish’s ziggurat and linked his rule to Babylon’s ...

The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

In 2013, two local Iraqis handed over two inscribed clay cylinders to the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage. Subsequent ...

A collection of arrow points excavated in South Africa has provided the oldest direct evidence of hunters deploying ...