JERUSALEM, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Israeli and American archaeologists have uncovered a rare late-Roman-era boundary stone with a Greek inscription, dating back approximately 1,720 years, the Hebrew ...

Conflicts over the Alsace-Lorraine region and Northern Ireland offer examples of how territory is often at the center of a ...

The 12.15-meter-long and approximately 1.75-m -wide column is thought to have been quarried in order to decorate the Second ...

The life of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (610–641), his military triumphs, reforms, and the establishment of Greek as the ...

ONE of the great literary works of the 18th century was Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. I hope there’s a historian ...

Bangladesh’s policy must be one of strategic pragmatism, recalibrating alliances to safeguard its interests and promote ...

As one of the oldest cities in the world, Petra has attracted over a million visitors in recent years. As one seven wonders of the modern world, it is a must for any trip to Jordan. Carved into ...

Violence has been a part of human behaviour since the dawn of history, but it often took excessively brutal forms. To curb ...

NCR readers respond to stories about pastoral care in Gaza and the West Bank, the Catholic voter and Nancy Pelosi's comments ...

Excavation of a Roman-era cemetery in France yielded nearly two dozen lead tablets inscribed in Latin and Gaulish.

“…in the Mishnaic passage prescribing food for a woman separated from her husband, ‘wine was not included in the minimum diet … The Tosefta reports that a woman “has no claim for wine, for the wives ...

The intricately crafted coffin dates back more than 1,500 years. Researchers say it weighs around 1,650 pounds, "comparable to an adult male polar bear" Sonja Anderson Using Arctic ice core ...