Thinking about getting a Middle Eastern Studies degree? Mehmet Durmaz, a master's student at Harvard is here to tell you why you should.

UVA doctoral student Musa Kazim Azimli uses spatial storytelling to reconstruct an Ottoman Empire slave market.

The Middle East has been a hotbed of conflict for decades, as such many nations within the region have built up their ...

Finished by the First World War and buried under the nation states that succeeded it, the Habsburg monarchy had survived for ...

Thousands re-enact historic battles in Zacatecas’ La Morisma de Bracho, celebrating culture, faith, and community.

Johnson would emerge as one of the key figures in the British colonial administration in America. He served with distinction in the French and Indian War (1754-63), held the local rank of ...

Archaeology is meant to help us understand our past. But sometimes it throws up objects that are so unusual, so advanced or so baffling that we can’t be sure what they really are or what they were ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for ...

The so-called oldest map of North America — the Vinland Map — sits in Yale’s Beinecke collection in a slim volume along with a medieval manuscript. The map purports to show groundbreaking conclusions ...

A Jewish leader and scholar, Philo (circa 20 BC – 40 AD) risked his life to plead for greater tolerance for Jews in the Roman Empire. Philo of Alexandria was a Jewish leader, philosopher and scholar ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

A view of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Before it was a federal prison, the island was home to a 19th-century fort, remains of which are still found under newer buildings. (Hans Blossey/Alamy ...