Middle East & North Africa

3+ hour, 12+ min ago   (57+ words) The Safavid Empire ruled Iran for more than two centuries and helped give the country a religious and cultural identity that remains important today. From 1501 until the dynasty's final collapse in the 18th century, Safavid rulers transformed politics, religion, trade and…...

4+ hour, 41+ min ago   (477+ words) A recent study is shedding light on how brave archaeologists risked their lives to save approximately 30,000 priceless artifacts as ISIS closed in on a Syrian city. Published in the journal Museum Management and Curatorship, the study details the rescue of…...

5+ hour, 48+ min ago   (880+ words) Aksum crosses the water Holy war? Byzantine-Persian proxy contest? A quarrel over who taxed the India trade? Historians still argue, and the honest answer is “yes.” Aksum’s grip on southern Arabia did not last: Abraha displaced its appointee, Persian and…...

9+ hour, 18+ min ago   (352+ words) Today is Monday, Oct. 5, the 278th day of 2026. There are 87 days left in the year. On Oct. 5, 2011, Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former chief executive who invented and master-marketed ever-sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technology, died in Palo Alto, California,…...

8+ hour, 32+ min ago   (459+ words) by Connor Kerr | Oct 5, 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 comments At two o'clock in the afternoon on 6 October 1973, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, the sky over the Suez Canal filled with Egyptian jets. More than 200 of…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (661+ words) by Connor Kerr | Aug 8, 2026 | History & Legends | 0 comments An Afterburner focus series in ten parts, inspired by Richard Rhodes’ masterpiece The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Part 1: Moonshine: The Idea Born at a Traffic Light Röntgen’s shimmering screen, the Curies’ glowing…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (512+ words) The risk of idealisation is clear here. Family memories also select. It is a pleasure to tell about a party, a party or a beloved place. Ordinary difficulties can disappear over time. The past becomes more coherent than the present…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (141+ words) Since Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas sympathizers have insisted that we must understand the massacre in its historical context — that it did not happen in a vacuum. This much is true. To understand this context, we need to look back at a chapter…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (671+ words) by Joseph Duncan | Oct 4, 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 comments Twenty-five years ago this Wednesday, on the night of 7 October 2001, the first bombs of the war in Afghanistan began to fall. Some of them had been carried by B-2 Spirit…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (738+ words) A soldier ran 8 miles in wet clothes to join the fight. A mother drew terrorists away from her child. David Kramer sees ancient Jewish heroes living again. David Kramer’s new book, History’s Greatest Comeback: How the Ancient Stories of the…...