He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

For millions of years, as the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates have drifted toward each other, the underground ancient ...

Sharaa, Syria’s president, spoke to The Economist on January 31st in Damascus. The conversation has been translated and ...

We should then have only to include the North in our confederacy . . . and we should have such an empire for liberty as she ...

Spring 2003: the US army barrels towards Baghdad during the Iraq invasion but the onslaught nearly grinds to a halt, not ...

The Akitu Festival, which dates back to at least 2000 BCE, about 4,000 years ago, was one of the most significant annual celebrations in ancient Babylon (modern-day Iraq). Held around the spring ...

The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they may be somewhere else entirely. But one thing is certain: Archaeologists ...

Today, there is only Call of Duty, but it would be generous to pretend it could have solidified this grip on the scene ...

Six years ago, at the time of the first Trump administration’s Muslim ban and its initial round of vicious anti-immigrant policies, I visited a refugee ...

The Ishtar Gate, housed in the Pergamon Museum, dates back to Ancient Babylonia (modern-day Iraq) Image: Ren Pengfei/Xinhua/picture alliance Many of the buildings that house museums are protected ...

One summer’s day in 1936, a crowd piled into a Mayfair gallery to hear Salvador Dalí give a lecture at the International Surrealist Exhibition ...

American Jewish leaders don’t just insist on Israel’s right to exist. They insist on its right to exist as a Jewish state.