By far the largest proportion of Volume II is devoted to the ancient civilization of Egypt because of its pre-eminent place in the early history of Africa. Read more in... Volume I deals with the ...

Shi’s Star Catalog has been notoriously difficult to date, but new research suggests astronomers drafted it centuries before its Western counterpart.

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Dagon took charge of crop fertility. “Dagan” can also mean grain. We know Philistia bordered the Mediterranean, as did the Babylonian and Assyrian Empires (Babylon technically inhabited several bodies ...

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Despite this writer’s generally strong support for Pres. Trump’s policies and innovations, given the Biblical and historical ...

Habeas corpus is a boundary marked by steel bars and the rule of law that keep any of us from being held in jail by the government without due process.

[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Shanghai kicked off a citywide campaign on Thursday to promote civic values and urban cultural development, aiming to advance urban civilization through ...

Armen Melikian’s 2023 novel, Expraedium, is a beguiling piece of work, part Joyce, part Orwell, part Pynchon, with a smattering of Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange thrown in for good measure. […] ...

The latest cheer goes to the University of Texas, which is making a major commitment to teaching the ideas of Western civilization and the American constitutional order. On Thursday the UT Board ...

Ancient civilizations in much of Mexico and Central America were making different grades of rubber 3,000 years before Charles Goodyear "stabilized" the stuff in the mid-19th century, new research ...

The six-year world war, and the ensuing Holocaust, destroyed much of Jewish civilization in Europe ... presents an exchange of letters concerning a special edition of the Babylonian Talmud that was ...