John Pearce/The Conversation In the amphitheatre of Gladiator II, Ridley Scott trains his lens on fighters and emperors – but…
History is full of inventive, albeit disturbing, methods of making people squirm, confess, or simply regret their life choices. Among…
“Jesus is God.” An inscription declaring this to be a reality, the earliest and oldest written expression of the Christian…
For 275 years, the Ptolemies ruled as Egypt’s last, enduring dynasty. Each king carried the name Ptolemy, and each queen…
Written nearly a thousand years ago, the Kitab al-tabikh (book of cookery) written by Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq, is the most…
The volte face has been astonishing. Until 2017, or thereabouts, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was seen as the hallmark…
It was supposed to be a prestige project for Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, a way to convince their people…
Astronomers have observed stars that are accelerating through space at a shockingly rapid pace. Normally this is assumed to relate…
A complete pylon of a Ptolemaic temple called Batlmy, described as a ‘significant milestone’, has been found on the western…
By Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona A study led by researchers from the UAB and the University La Sapienza in Rome…