"When the Safavid dynasty, founded in 1501, built a state that championed Iranian identity and Twelver Shi'ism, it prompted the more established Ottoman empire to align itself definitively with Sunni ...

For centuries, the Ottoman Empire and Persia clashed over territory, influence, and religion but despite their power, the Ottomans never fully conquered Persia. This video explores why: from fierce ...

Originating around 800 BCE with the polis city-state system, Greece is the birthplace of Athens, Sparta, philosophy, democracy, and the Olympic Games. Dating back to around 1500 BCE during the Vedic ...

The recent 12-day military confrontation between Iran and Israel not only intensified tensions across the Middle East but ...

Morocco and Iran have shared a complex relationship shaped by intellectual exchange, Sufi influence, and failed diplomatic overtures, later compounded by Cold War alliances and ideological tensions.

Napoleon is relatively unusual in western history for aligning himself with the brutal Hannibal – not Hannibal’s Roman enemy, ...

TEHRAN - A significant cultural heritage preservation initiative has culminated in the digitization and cataloguing of rare ...

While promoting season 4 of 'The Bear,' Jeremy Allen White included a picture of a DVD for the 2003 cult-classic film 'Death of a Dynasty.

Before Egypt’s dynasties, rural rituals and astral burials shaped beliefs that later defined the divine and sacred order.

In this excerpt from Karen Elliott House’s forthcoming biography of Mohammed bin Salman, the future king emerges as a driven, highly competitive young ...

A constitutional culture New England and the struggle against arbitrary rule in the Restoration empire Adrian Chastain Weimer ...