Egypt did not learn how to name a people by one word at once; it learned to give names to people by worship, and subsequently by name. That change cut into stone by pharaohs, not historians–is the ...

The pews of the Church of the Annunziata in Mercogliano, a town just outside of Naples, were filled with guests wearing ...

The Chincha Kingdom was transporting seabird excrement from islands to valleys as early as the 13th century, and this powerful fertiliser may have been key to its economic success ...

At dawn one morning in the spring of 2000, Jibrin Abubaker awoke with a start to the voice of a street preacher speaking through a megaphone outside his Muslim communities often expel new Christians ...

Reflecting on his pathbreaking history of Algeria’s National Liberation Front (FLN), first published in 1980, the Marxist ...