The world’s first multinational company was also the first to be listed on a stock exchange. Of course, there’s a bit of a ...

Many people are eagerly watching the calendar, awaiting the arrival of Black Friday on November to take advantage of tempting ...

This Hubble Space Telescope image captures a triple-star system, which can host potentially-habitable planets. Our nearest ...

For the first time in history, scientists have found amber fragments in Antarctica, thus closing one of the few remaining ...

Located at 3,130 meters above sea level at the summit of Mount Chaberton in the Cerces Massif of the French Alps, the ...

At a time when the passage of time was dictated by the movement of the sun and the seasons, the introduction of “clock time” ...

In a context marked by water scarcity and collective despair, the mass offering of children sacrificed to the god of rain, ...

The characteristic minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra, the city where the Zanj Rebellion broke out. Credit: Taisir Mahdi ...

However, the lengthy duration of the Peloponnesian Wars required new additions, such as the peltasts or auxiliary light infantrymen, who were not as heavily protected and did not fight in closed ...

At midnight on June 11, 1940, Italy declared war on France. This was something that had been anticipated for some time, despite a certain level of German discontent (Hitler saw the transalpine country ...

In the remote highlands of Phrygia, Professor Mark Munn of Pennsylvania State University has deciphered part of the inscription on the Arslan Kaya monument, also known as the “Lion Rock.” This finding ...

There are quite a few literary and cinematic works about the First Crusade, and in most of them, beginning with the anonymous Gesta Francorum or Torquato Tasso’s famous epic poem The liberated ...