Admittedly, this country wedged between Russia to the North, the Caspian Sea on the East and Iran to the South is hardly the ...

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

Dr. Rory Naismith, professor of early medieval English history at University of Cambridge, won for his book “Making Money in the Early Middle Ages,” which examines the uses and meanings of coined ...

The Norse ravaged much of Europe for centuries. They were also cosmopolitan explorers who followed trade winds into the Far ...

The fall of the western Roman empire brought barbarian invasions which threatened all that was left of ancient civilization, particularly in the city of Rome. Though the Roman Empire continued to ...

There are San Andreas faults in many places. They happen where two rigid continental masses slide past each other at fairly rapid pace. The San Andreas fault separates (‘connect’ would be the ...

Along with Mallorca and Menorca, as well as over 40 islets, Ibiza and Formentera form part of the Balearic Islands, situated in the western Mediterranean Sea, around 150 km off the east coast of ...

ASHEVILLE – If you felt a rumbling start to your Saturday morning, it might have been a hungry tummy, but more likely it was an earthquake that rocked Western ... 90 miles east of Greenback ...

MOSCOW, May 6 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the situation in the Middle East and bilateral ties in a phone call on Tuesday ...