Dive into the sands of ancient Egypt and uncover the captivating story of Osiris, the god-king destined to die not once, but ...

Russian Jewish novelist Vasily Grosman, who was the first journalist to see the Nazi death camp Treblinka, once wrote, ...

Asaad Shlash, Hassan Abd Alrahman, Faraj Birkdar and Haitham Alkatreb served long jail terms in the 1990s. Students and professors at Syrian universities with an interest in music, the four were also ...

For 54 years, Syria existed in the shadow of a silence so profound, it swallowed entire lives.

Frederic Myers died at the age of 57 supposedly shared his journey into the unknown including the 'seven levels of heaven' in ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

If our results are replicated, it would imply that the mind may continue to exist after the death of the body, or an afterlife.' Dr Parnia is one of four trustees of the Horizon Research ...

As a high school student, she was already working as an Assyrian-English interpreter. She fondly recalls the first program broadcast in November 1980 and the immense joy it brought to the Assyrian ...

We’re working to end the use of the death penalty around the world, and won’t stop until every country in the world has abolished it. The death penalty (also known as capital punishment) is the ...

Almost 60 years later, and support for the death penalty in the UK continues to fall. A recent YouGov poll has shown that less than half - 40% - of people still support the death penalty, down from 51 ...