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 ...

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 Weak leadership, outdated weapons, and fighting on ...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 ...

President Trump is posing a dilemma for historians focusing on the Middle Eastern war theatre. Will history repeat itself? I ...

The largest cavalry charge in history broke the 1683 Siege of Vienna, effectively ending Ottoman expansion into Western ...

Sabbatai Zevi was the 17th-century false messiah whose life blurred the lines between Judaism and Islam as he converted to ...

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 ...

Sharaa, who ‍has vowed to protect the rights of all Syrian groups, ⁠issued a decree on January 16 formally recognizing ...

Historians have been reconstructing the long-lost story of two of British history's most mysterious artefacts - a pair of ...