The word “harem” appears numerous times in the Epstein files, revealing the disgraced financier’s unsettling Orientalist ...

Emails released by the U.S. Justice Department trace a years-long friendship between Jeffrey Epstein and Karim Wade — the son ...

Khiva dates to the sixth century. Its earliest inhabitants came from nearby Iran. Turkic speakers became the majority, and ...

President Masoud Barzani and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) leader Bafel Talabani are set to hold a high-level meeting on Wednesday in Erbil’s Pirmam to decide on Iraq’s contested ...

Silenced from Egypt’s religious life, women chanters are returning, reviving a sacred tradition and reclaiming space through ...

Rabbi Dana Evan Kaplan traveled to Morocco with 25 Reform rabbis, all members of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, ...

As Iran weakens, a power vacuum is emerging across the Middle East — and Saudi Arabia is moving to fill it by recalibrating relations with former rivals, hedging global partnerships and asserting a ...

Preserved by dry, cool air and darkness, the cheetah mummies are offering scientists DNA insights into a lost population and ideas for bringing it back. One of seven mummified cheetahs found in caves ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Scientists have uncovered the mummified remains of cheetahs from caves in northern Saudi Arabia. The remains range from 130 years old to over 1,800 years old. Researchers excavated seven mummies along ...

The fastest land animal on the planet lies frozen in time beneath blistering desert sands. Researchers have discovered dozens of ancient cheetah skeletons and dehydrated bodies preserved in caves on ...