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

After discovering the identity of his mother, a slave from the Caucasus, Carlo Vecce publishes the monumental 'Life of Leonardo' (Alfaguara), of 680 pages. "The goal is to recover his humanity beyond ...

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

By confronting this uncomfortable history, we can ask a critical question: Will the Church continue to be complicit in hatred ...

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

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

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

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

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 officially referred to as “Roma” and “Travellers,” two umbrella terms adopted by ...

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