Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and de facto ruler, is attempting to modernize—not to democratize—the desert ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Israel’s military success in Iran has spurred hopes that the Jewish state might take more daring steps toward peace in Gaza.

The striking headgear sported by members of the Ottoman court in the 15th century provoked fashionable Westerners to don ...

Earlier archeological evidence has shown trade links between Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as similarities in pottery-making ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

Let’s get out of Dodge City”. Those were the words of my colleague Brenden Nel, who took the Bryce Lawrence refereeing freak show that knocked the Springboks out of the 2011 Rugby World Cup way too ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth caused a stir when, pursuant to President Trump’s long overdue purge of content deemed to promote DEI, he absurdly flagged the name Enola Gay for removal, ...

The latest work by renowned historian Diarmaid MacCulloch tackles Christian attitudes to sex over the centuries. Modern-day Christians who talk about traditional values usually don’t know how ...

My regular readers will know that I love history. I also love a well-researched novel about British royalty and the Tudor ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...