He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

Maps are ubiquitous—on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...

To this day, Israel or the Palestinian territories may fall off some maps, depending on the politics of their makers. This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to redraw the map of the Middle East before departing for the US to meet ...

The Abraham Peace Accords consist of multiple agreements signed between Israel and several Arab states which encourage a ...

“It would be really exciting to tell the story of Qabra from its own point of view because one thing that historians of the ancient Middle East know well is that certain kinds of ancient ...

Scientists spell out Islamic scientific traditions in a new a volume dedicated to unlocking the secrets of oriental ...

A mass grave in the Negev excavated by the Israel Antiquities Authority sheds light on funerary, divination, and commercial practices in the first millennium BCE ...

For centuries, the Vatican Library has been a vault of historical records, housing some of the world's most treasured texts, ...

No one can realistically be expected to know everything about the Palestinian Arab/Israeli conflict, yet there are recurring canards that one should be prepared to address with some level of knowledge ...

The Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 laid the groundwork for the region’s present borders (see map 1). It largely ignored ethnic or sectarian differences, contributing to the Middle East’s ...