We look at "Universal Language," a new movie that follows three storylines in a city that is a cross between Winnipeg and Tehran.

The city of Iskenderun, also known as Alexandretta, in todays Turkey, was originally founded by Alexander the Great.

Manhattan’s U.S. attorney resigned this afternoon rather than obey an order from a top Justice Department official to drop ...

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

Learn how environmental changes have humbled many of history’s most successful and dominant cultures.

Alisher Navoi stands as an extraordinary literary figure whose legacy has profoundly shaped the art of poetry, elevating it ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

Idina Menzel returns to Broadway, new seasons of The White Lotus and Yellowjackets, and SNL’s anniversary celebration.

The turn-based strategy game Civilization VII emphasizes chaotic transition periods when latent challenges all emerge at once ...

The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...

The ancient faith dating back to 1700 B.C. is in danger of becoming extinct if its dwindling followers don't find a way to ...

BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of ...