Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The sole caretaker of the pyramids ...

Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria are not usually top spots for travel - but they are among the places visited by Callum Mills.

Frankincense and myrrh may seem like odd gifts now, but in the ancient world, they were highly prized. They were used for ...

Scrolling through Zara’s transactions shows she has spent thousands of dollars on TikTok. Zara, not her real name, is in her ...

The Rev. David Peck is an Episcopal priest in the heartland of Pennsylvania, a swing state at the center of the tense ...

Somalia is facing a dilemma over the next phase of peace support operations in the country, coming in the wake of tensions with neighbouring Ethiopia and uncertainty around funding. This emerged as ...

Silver drachma minted in Massalia (Marseilles, France) circa 350-220 BC. Credit: Jastrow/Wikimedia Commons The first ancient Greek colonies were established as early as the 8th century BC, while wide ...

Credit: Mattpopovich / CC0 / Wikimedia Commons The division of people into various social classes is a persistent feature across civilizations and was no less the case in ancient Greece where social ...

An African “country” is one of the world's “most dangerous” and doesn't even appear on the map. Somaliland, a self-declared republic in the Horn of Africa, has existed in political limbo ...

A fresco featuring the bright blue paint of the newly opened room; a scanning electron image of an ancient Roman concrete sample with lime clast, highlighted in red; Dr. Masic inspecting the ...

Originally celebrated among ancient Celts in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland over 2,000 years ago, the celebration was a time of elation and revelry when the veil between the living and the dead was ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Seven people died and six others were injured after a suicide bomber detonated an unidentified device at a ...