Dr. Zahi Hawass says builders were not slaves; they wouldn't have been buried 'in the shadow of the pyramids'.

Up to 17 million people have passed through the slave trade in the Muslim world since the 7th century. Tragically, the ...

Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes ...

When reflecting on the ancient world, historians often break societies down into groups of people such as citizens, slaves, nobility or soldiers ... to sabotage the mooring ropes and anchors of ...

At Opis, Alexander the Great confronted a mutiny of his army, caused by simmering tensions between the Macedonians and ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

“In Georgia I wear it as a scarf, but in Iran this is my chador, my obligation” – An Iranian girl told me, as I queued to ...

When World War II broke out in 1939, British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill requested that the Iranian government revert ...

In the first known interaction between the two nations, the ancient Persians freed the Jews from captivity in Babylon.

In 1849, archaeologists discovered 14 clay tablets with cuneiform writing in Iraq that narrate the story of the Anunnaki, meaning "Those who from heaven to Earth came." According to Zecharia Sitchin, ...

On his latest work, India; A Linguistic Civilization that explores how the diversity that defines the Indian mind space emerges out of India’s multilingualism ...