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Today is Friday, Oct. 16, the 289th day of 2026. There are 76 days left in the year. In 1758, American lexicographer Noah Webster was born in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1793, Marie Antoinette, the queen of France, was beheaded during the French Revolution. In 1859, radical abolitionist…
Nowlebanon Beirut, Lebanon — The Department of History and Archaeology and the History and Archaeology Student Society at the American University of Beirut will host a public discussion of Nada Abdel Samad’s book, When the Jewish Balconies of Wadi Abu Jamil…
LONDON: The renewed offensive by the Houthi militia in Yemen has raised fresh concerns about the fate of a cultural heritage already battered by more than a decade of war, destruction and looting. The impact of the latest fighting on…
New Lines Magazine How Shukri Al-Quwatli’s Memoir Changes Our View of Syria’s History The only such account written by a president of the country opens up long-forgotten aspects of the national story On the slopes of Mount Qasioun, overlooking the…
On June 10, 1943, as the Nazis were systematically murdering the Jews of Europe, the Alabama legislature took a stand that no other American state had yet taken. By unanimous vote, it adopted a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish…
AFRICA · SUDAN · HORN OF AFRICA · GUIDE Sudan’s war is no longer only a Sudanese story. Seven countries share a land border with Sudan, and in October 2026 nearly all of them are sheltering its refugees, moving goods through its territory or…
More than six centuries ago, the medieval Muslim scholar Ibn Khaldun developed theories about why civilizations rise, prosper and eventually decline. A new collection of research examines how his ideas continue to shape our understanding of politics, economics and society…
There is also a wider significance in the way these exhibitions tell their stories. Preserving heritage should mean more than celebrating familiar symbols or indulging in nostalgia. Understanding how the past shaped the present helps us today to recognise the…
Drawing on a century of archaeological experience in China, lessons learned from past excavations should illuminate the future, guiding the discipline forward with renewed purpose, scholars said at the 5th Congress of Chinese Archaeology, which opened on Thursday in Yuncheng, Shanxi…
Rome conquered many different civilizations but was never able to establish a permanent foothold in Nubia, a region of great significance in Ancient Egypt. Rome conquered many different civilizations. However, it was never able to establish a permanent foothold in…