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 ...

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.

A new study published June 18 in the journal Nature has uncovered a “huge surprise” about humans in Africa 50,000 years ago. Previous studies have shown that humans, who arrived in Africa ...

Charlie Kirk warns Lindsey Graham and Iran war hawks: ‘Not even the Romans could defeat Persia’ ‘Now, I’m not saying they’re comparable to our Marines or to our Air Force, but is that ...

More than a thousand years ago, long before India became home to over 100 crore people, a few followers of Zoroastrianism anchored off the coast of Gujarat, fleeing religious persecution in ancient ...

“There shall be no slavery in this State; nor involuntary servitude, unless for the punishment of crime,” it reads. It mirrors similar language in the U.S. Constitution’s 13th Amendment.