World Regions & Civilizations

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (333+ words) Benin has renewed its demand for the return of 35 cultural artifacts and archival materials held in France, including a sacred statue taken during the colonial era, Benin Web TV reported on Tuesday. President Romuald Wadagni raised the issue during talks…...

8+ hour, 19+ min ago   (250+ words) The Pacific War began in 1941 after the Japanese airstrike at Pearl Harbor. The Pacific War lasted a few years and involved millions of soldiers across the Pacific. The war's origins date back at least to the 1930s, when the first conflicts…...

12+ hour, 12+ min ago   (253+ words) Justinian compiled the Roman legal tradition in the Corpus Iuris Civilis. It was constituted by the Codex Justinianus, a compilation of Roman imperial law; the Digest, a collection of jurists’ opinions; the Institutes, a legal textbook for law students; and…...

16+ hour, 41+ min ago   (1626+ words) I whakaputahia tuatahia tēnei atikara e NITV i Ahitereiria Warning: this article describes historical atrocities and may be distressing to some readers. It remains to this day the largest domestic military offensive in Australia’s history. The scale of the gathering…...

17+ hour, 22+ min ago   (623+ words) LONG before Warrington had a name, people were already moving through this landscape – hunting, trading, raiding, surviving. Some stayed – some travelled on – and some were taken against their will. Tens of thousands of years ago, the earliest people to pass…...

20+ hour, 59+ min ago   (420+ words) AOL.co.uk The outcome was never in doubt. But that didn't stop a sell-out crowd of 13,000 spectators watching rapt over the weekend as the Battle of Hastings was re-fought on the very spot where the armies of King Harold…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (502+ words) A criminal complaint filed against cantons Zurich, Bern and Solothurn has brought the question of Switzerland’s role in the slave trade before the courts. At its heart is the allegation that the historical predecessors of the three cantons helped to…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (156+ words) The exhibition “Faith and Identity: Relics from the History Museum of Armenia” was officially inaugurated at the Byzantine Museum of the Archbishop Makarios III Foundation in Nicosia. Initiated by the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in Cyprus, the exhibition…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (656+ words) The Mapestry of Higham Ferrers was created by the Material Girls A small Northamptonshire town is hoping to capitalise on the country's current fascination with the Bayeux Tapestry. Canny tourism officers in Higham Ferrers say the town's own impressive hand-sewn…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (307+ words) A drawing copy of the Bayeux Tapestry, created in almost the same scale more than 170 years ago, has been restored and put on display. The replica, based on the embroidered depiction of the French invasion and eventual conquest of England…...