What happens when a continent is torn apart by a hundred years of war, while another flourishes with trade, innovation, and ...

The Byzantine Empire was one of the first societies to offer its citizens some form of what we now call universal healthcare.

A top performing London sixth form has radically reinvented its curriculum, promising to be more than just a results factory ...

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the ...

The Supreme Court has questioned why the NCPCR was only concerned with madrasas and whether it was even-handed in its ...

On Valentine's Day, the most romantic day of the year, here is the history of St Catherine's Chapel near Abbotsbury, whose namesake St ...

This week the 7 Most Endangered Programme, a civil society campaign to save Europe’s endangered heritage, announced its list ...

In Cairo’s famous Ben Ezra Synagogue, one of the city’s most prominent Jewish landmarks, a treasure trove of history lay ...

This is why female relatives, friends, and neighbors accompanied the bride in preparing for the wedding night, offering her a lesson in sexual education ... and struggles of women during the Middle ...

Arakelots Monastery and Settlement in Armenia has been named among the 14 most endangered sites in Europa. The 14 monuments and heritage sites in Europe shortlisted for this year’s edition of the 7 ...

In the American West of A.D. 999, the native peoples reckoned their lives by the sun and the moon and the rains instead of any Christian calendar. Their daily concerns were the same, though, ranging ...