The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.

Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...

The Chancay deep-water port is one of Beijing's most ambitious infrastructure investments in Latin America. Read more at ...

Some currencies that Americans can't identify include the rupee, lira, dram, kwanza, lek, aspar, tugrik, and krone.

The northern regions that we call North Africa today bore the name “Libya,” another term deeply rooted in antiquity and often mentioned in ancient Greek and Roman accounts. By examining these names ...

And his latest, Gladiator II, has already drawn the ire of historians. Details like a rhino ridden by a gladiator and sharks munching on unlucky combatants in the Colosseum have been raising eyebrows ...

You may be thinking to yourself, surely there’s some confusion here – Jordanian wine? That can’t be true! Well, this is one ...

Benji Shulman, a prominent local Zionist voice, engages with Daily Maverick on these inconsistencies, as well as on the questions of Jewish safety, Israel’s apparent descent into fascism, and the ...

Big Tech goes long on nuclear power, AI slop is all over Spotify, and a tiny island is making bank off “.ai” websites.

Ever since the days of the Roman Empire, European countries have dreamed of uniting the continent again under one government. In no country was that dream held more dearly than Italy, where the ruins ...

The novels included cover an expanse of Arab history from ancient Libya and medieval central Asia, to 19th century Egypt, mid-20th century Syria and recent history in Iraq and Algeria. The works ...