Archaeologists have unearthed “administrative tablets,” which provide the oldest tangible proof of the world’s ...

The old world is dying, and the new one is struggling to be born. Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher and political theorist, famously wrote in his Prison Notebooks, “The old world is ...

[In the Roman Empire ... old Hindu and ... Zoroastrian religious texts. So the name has been around for many, many centuries, but by the second century of the Common Era in the Roman world ...

In 1945, a B-25 bomber on its way to Newark Airport in New Jersey crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building. Amazingly, the building suffered only minor damage. The Empire State ...

As part of that postcolonial empire, French paratroopers (among the world’s toughest special forces ... II or the close of the Cold War, when an old order fails with utter finality and a ...