In attaching his name to buildings and programs while still president, Donald Trump is walking a path paved by conquerors and ...

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1835 The Journey of the Gaza Synagogue Doors: From Ruin to Refuge in Hebron ...

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The opening of a huge new museum in Egypt has renewed calls for the Rosetta Stone to be returned to Cairo - but an expert has ...

The Communist Party of India traces its origins to the Kanpur meeting held on December 26, 1925. Here is the story of its ...

EVERY city in Spain has fascinating stories to tell and historic artefacts to show off, but did you know which were once former capitals of Spain? The ...

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Part travelogue, part geopolitical survey, this entertaining book looks at how the country’s Near Eastern connections are being knitted back together ...

More than two centuries after it unlocked the language of the ancient Egyptians, the Rosetta Stone remains at the centre of an unresolved global debate, as renewed calls grow louder for its ...

Dynastic Jewels, the Al Thani Collection’s glittery exhibition, has recently opened in the Hôtel de la Marine: the very building, formerly the Hôtel du Garde-Meuble, where the ancien régime housed its ...