Queen Esther was a figure of inspiration to Jews who had fled from oppressive regimes. In the Netherlands, she became a broadly popular symbol of courage and resistance.

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Ancient Greek history is full of the names of great minds: philosophers, scientists, statesmen, generals, historians and ...

This tradition became more pronounced after Ferdowsi's Shahnameh (Book ... ancient times, and musk from Hotan prefecture in Xinjiang, was once a special link between the two cultures. In Persian ...

The famous Parisian museum announced the Mona Lisa is moving into her own gallery. The change will actually help visitors ...

When the former New York Times Paris bureau chief first set out to write a book about the most famous and largest museum in ...

Scholars debate whether the Gospel stories preserve ancient memories or are just Greek literature in disguise. But there’s a ...

A show argues that the Jewish tale was interpreted as a symbol of liberation from Spanish rule in 17th-century Dutch society.

Beneath the lush valleys and snow-capped peaks of Swat lies a legacy that spans millennia—one of empires, enlightenment, and the ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?

Astrology and time measurement evolved together, creating a celestial calendar divided into four seasons, each with three ...

It is no coincidence that the words city, citizen and civilisation are all cognates. It was only after the Neolithic Revolution, starting about 10,000 years ago, that humans developed agriculture and ...