Welcome to the first chapter of our Acropolis tour! We begin in 490 BCE, when Athens was a large, radical democracy facing the colossal Persian Empire. Witness the legendary battles of Marathon and ...

Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age.

They uncovered a 2,000-year-old palace in the Republic of Georgia and a 1,500-year-old church in Iraq, which led to this ...

In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who ...

Vice Presidence JD Vance claims religious freedom is rooted in Christianity. What does that mean for religious minorities?

The region's cohesiveness has always developed organically - not by oil, war or empire, but by their collateral effects of ...

In a dramatic departure from its earlier edition, NCERT's newly released Class 7 social science textbook resorts to politically motivated retelling of the ‘Ghaznavid Invasions’ ...

With December comes Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Christmas and Yuletide. Here's how they are celebrated and what to know about the ...

A look at the journey east which explains how Jesus’(as) mission to find the Lost Sheep of Israel was in fact completed.

That is not to suggest that Joyce, Homer and Dostoyevsky are not foundational reads for literary devotees. Rather, a truly committed reader would do well to recognize that many extraordinary books ...

Each year, CBS News Chicago remembers some of the many people who made the city tick through a variety of talents and achievements. Here are 62 people whose memories Chicago is honoring in 2025.

Prophet Zechariah solves this tension by envisioning a future where there will be peaceful cooperation among peoples under God’s universal dominion. Zechariah proclaims the centrality of the Temple in ...