The Bible contains a story of how a young Jewish woman named Esther became the Queen of Persia and saved the Jews from an ...

All we have left of the ancient oracles are ruined temples. But we know about their significant role in ancient religion due to the accounts written by the historian Herodotus, fifth century BCE poet ...

Some of the key historians who wrote about the lives of ancient Greek women were Plutarch, Thucydides and Herodotus. There were also many stories and plays that give us representations of women in ...

Who was Gordias, the legendary father of rich King Midas? Legend connects him to the Gordian knot, famously cut by Alexander ...

A book exhibition titled Professor Panah Khalilov– 100 has been opened at the National Library to commemorate the 100th ...

Archaeologists are uncovering and restoring a rare ancient library in Stratonikeia, one of southwestern Türkiye’s most ...

For millennia, historians, philosophers and statesmen have pondered about war, its nature and the nature of leaders who take ...

Plan differs from other Anatolian libraries and served as inspiration for a North African counterpart, says head of ...

Take a world tour of monsters, from vampires in Serbia and giants in Cornwall to festivals of dragons in Bavaria and ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

"When it comes to paying taxes, California is Bernie Sanders' kind of state. About 155,000 taxpayers out of 15.7 million pay half of all the state's income taxes.” – Jed ...

As Canada hosts the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alta., our moment of international prominence throws our domestic drift into ...