Homer's Epics, Iliad and Odyssey, brought the ideas of Greek civilization to the world, serving as the foundation of Western literature.

The Byzantine Empire was one of the first societies to offer its citizens some form of what we now call universal healthcare.

The catalogue - online from today with the first 94 works catalogued for the Middle Ages - presents 560 entries in Italian ...

The author looks at the defining features and similarities of work by Hieronymus Bosch, Max Beckmann and William Kentridge ...

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the ...

With the clear Biblical, Jewish precedence for both Hummus and Za`atar in ancient Israelite cuisine — vastly predating the ...

Turkey invests in capital goods through a mix of government-led projects, private sector contributions, and foreign direct ...

The art of making Turkish coffee in the sand seems ... It's said that its beginnings date back to the 15th century in ancient Constantinople (now Istanbul), where the first coffee beans were ...

The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...

Catherine the Great: individual empress, mother of the Russian Renaissance, and the longest-ruling female monarch of Russia.

Early theologians, including Clement of Rome, the first-century bishop of Rome, and John Chrysostom, archbishop of Constantinople in the fourth ... The Hearst Foundations has awarded the Seattle Art ...

The so-called “stateless people,” who originally migrated from northern India to Europe in the 14th century, are today ...