By Tel Aviv University. An excavation led by Tel Aviv University archaeologists dates mines in the south of Israel to the days of King Solomon. New findings from an archaeological excavation led this winter by Dr. Erez Ben-Yosef of [...]

By Tel Aviv University. An excavation led by Tel Aviv University archaeologists dates mines in the south of Israel to the days of King Solomon. New findings from an archaeological excavation led this winter by Dr. Erez Ben-Yosef of Tel Aviv [...]

By Alton Parrish. The shores of the Sea of Galilee, located in the North of Israel, are home to a number of significant archaeological sites. Now researchers from Tel Aviv University have found an ancient structure deep beneath the waves [...]

By Alton Parrish. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address, known for its warnings about the growing power of the “military-industrial complex,” was nearly two years in the making. This Inside the Vaults video [...]

By Coventry University. Academics at Coventry University have uncovered complex social networks within age-old Icelandic sagas, which challenge the stereotypical image of Vikings as unworldly, violent savages. The Íslendinga sögur – [...]

By Marce Cameron. Cuba exemplifies the interdependence of the struggles for national liberation and socialism in the imperialist epoch. The Spanish-American war for control over Spain’s colonial possessions at the close of the 19th [...]

By Alton Parrish. Geologists and geophysicists of the Alfred Wegener Institute , Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), discovered traces of large ice sheets from the Pleistocene on a seamount off the north-eastern coast of [...]

  By Juan Cole. Charles Kurzman writes at IslamiCommentary   What sort of Muslims carried out the largest mass murder in American history, 12 years today? The FBI refuses to release a document that might show just how unusual their brand [...]

By Andrew Hartman. The July 2011 edition of the Journal of American History includes David Hollinger’s article, based on his Presidential Address, “After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Ecumenical Protestantism and the Modern American Encounter [...]

By Alton Parrish. Jewelry and female figurines from Belica, Serbia, to be exhibited for the first time at Tübingen University Museum.Archeologists from the University of Tübingen’s Institute of Prehistory are working with the Serbian [...]

  By Alton Parrish. You won’t believe it! Archaeologists who led Search for King Richard III reveal Victorian builders came within inches of destroying human remains. Archaeologists from the University of Leicester who uncovered a grave [...]

By Alton Parrish. Priceless thousand year old statue is first carving of a human in a meteorite Credit: Stuttgart University, Elmar Buchner It sounds like an artifact from an Indiana Jones film; a 1,000 year-old ancient Buddhist statue [...]

  By University of Bonn. Researchers at the University of Bonn discover a 1,400-year old mass grave at Uxul, Mexico Researchers of the Department of Anthropology of the Americas at the University of Bonn have discovered a mass [...]

RUSSIA: DOUBLING THE LABOR OF MODERN WOMEN   By Masha Egupova. Women! Learn the Means of Production! Replace Workers who have gone to the Front! (1941) Photo by IISG on Flickr (CC licensed) Only once a year do all the major news sources, [...]

By Sean Guillory. May 6 is the first anniversary of the Bolotnaya protests that erupted in violence. Twenty-eight people and possibly more await prosecution. Bolotnaya has also served as the impetus to link Left Front leader Sergei Udaltsov [...]

By Public library of Science. 10,000-yr-old remains of hunter-gatherer settlements identified in ‘forest islands’ Previously unknown archeological sites in forest islands reveal human presence in the western Amazon as early as [...]

  By Randall Wilson. “When the admirable Tiberius upon becoming emperor, received a message from the Senate in which the conscript fathers assured him that whatever legislation he wanted would be automatically passed by them, he sent [...]

By University of Chicago. Analysis of a 440-year-old document reveals new details about native population decline in the heartland of the Inca Empire following Spanish conquest in the 16th century. According to the analysis, the native [...]

Posted by Alton Parrish.   A secret report, previously unknown to historians, shows how British Intelligence was tracking Hitler’s growing preoccupation with “the enemy within” on the eve of the Final Solution. A secret analysis of [...]

  By Sean Guillory. This week’s Russia Magazine! column, “Victory’s Essential, but Unwanted Guest,” Victory Day is Russia’s most sacred holiday. The day marks Russia’s most traumatic moment in its turbulent twentieth century. [...]