The struggle of Africa and the Middle East against foreign oppression did not end with the fall of colonial empires. Instead, ...

Chris Wickham is one of the best-known Marxist historians of the Middle Ages. In his book The Donkey and the Boat, he offers ...

The Maghreb has long been absent from studies on the recent prehistory of the Mediterranean. The new findings change that.

Historically, it's been thought that the Phoenicians were the first major civilization in Africa's Maghreb region. New ...

How did Gothic art influence the modernists? An exhibition in Norway explores how artists like Dürer and Hans Holbein's ...

In many places surveyed, 20% or more of all adults have left their childhood religious group. Christianity and Buddhism have ...

Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...