The letter, dating to the 16th or 17th century, contained an order from King Qashqash, a Nubian ruler that was previously ...

Traveling throughout the Middle East and North Africa is often described as a journey through the origins of civilizations. Long before modern borders were drawn and political tensions defined the ...

Recovered in 2015, the ship was identified and studied through the Slave Wrecks Project, an international network of institutions that confirmed it was associated with the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

As the Iran war expands, the roots of many West Asia conflicts lie in the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the European agreements that redrew the region's borders after World War I.

How the little-known atoll of Diego Garcia is becoming another flashpoint in the global contest between the U.S. and China ...

The Middle East that we knew and failed to understand is now part of West Asia. That expanded theater is where the outcomes of the Iran war will matter.

Writer, academic, and curator Catherine Morris introduces an extract from her new book Intimate Power: Autobiography of a City, a unique literary journey described as 'a meditation on forms of ...

Pandas, think back to your favorite subject in school. Maybe it was English, science, math… or if you were feeling adventurous, geography. The subject itself might be easy to remember, but the actual ...

The refreshed map is intended to encourage Londoners to explore how public art can transform everyday journeys. To mark the launch, a series of free pop‑up talks by artists, curators and family ...

A research team led by Dr. Márton Rabi from the Biogeology Department of the University of Tübingen, together with Máté ...

Finn Allen strikes an unbeaten century as New Zealand demolish 2024 runners-up South Africa by nine wickets to reach a second Men's T20 World Cup final ...

In Africa, colonialism has mostly been studied as something imposed from outside, for example from Europe in the 19th and ...