A week meandering between ancient sites — via cedar-shaded hillsides and turquoise bays — leaves the modern world feeling ...
In 1221 on the plains of current-day Turkmenistan lay the city of Merv. The town faced a Mongol besiegement under one of ...
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The war that finished the Ottoman Empire

A centuries-old empire entered a modern world war it could not sustain. Weak leadership, outdated weapons, and fighting on ...
Daniel Neep’s excellent account corrects the traditional narrative to show a nation surviving and resisting the powers that ...
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Gangsterism - the new American doctrine

President Trump is posing a dilemma for historians focusing on the Middle Eastern war theatre. Will history repeat itself? I ...
Recall the image etched in memory: a bulldozer driven by fighters of the self-proclaimed Islamic State smashing through the ...
IrishCentral contributor John Joe McGinley on one of the most mysterious raids in Irish history, the Sack of Baltimore, when ...
Discover the history of Iraq's name. Learn why the region was called the 'Cradle of Civilization,' and the changes that led ...
One of the most consequential forms of historical revision appears in those academic and pedagogical settings where the ...
Award-winning adventure travel company Wild Frontiers believe in thoughtful, immersive travel as a force for good. They bring together small groups of like-minded travellers for carefully crafted ...
Family photos reflect ‘aesthetics of citizenship’ and performance of identity, said Turkish scholar Özge Baykan Calafato at ...
A man’s ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography,” wrote William Saroyan, the Armenian ...