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A Human History of the Mediterranean; By Davide Abulafia; Oxford University Press; 816 pp., $68.00 If you read the better class of these ocean books, you might soon find yourself convinced of the ...

After a reign of more than 25,000 years in Ireland, the last Irish wolf was said to have been killed in 1786, on the slopes ...

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about a century after their conquest. The commentary’s author, Abolala Soudavar, and its team of translators alongside some scholars and enthusiasts of Persian art and history have been invited to ...

Battle of Granicus (334 BC) Alexander the Great, leading his Macedonian army, defeated the Persians, marking the beginning of his conquest of the Persian Empire. After this battle, the Persians were ...

A joint team of archaeologists from the Durham University and the University of Al-Qadisiyah stumbled across the site while ...

A fragment of cloth found in a royal tomb in Greece decades ago might be the remains of a tunic once worn by Alexander the ...

In the bustling heart of Old Delhi, Indian bookseller Mohammed Mahfooz Alam sits forlorn in his quiet store, among the last ...