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The “Greater Israel” label refers to an expansionist vision that various commentators, politicians and analysts say claims the West Bank, Gaza and parts of neighbouring Arab states; recent reporting a...
The Out of Africa theory holds that anatomically modern Homo sapiens evolved in Africa and that the worldwide populations of modern humans descend primarily from one or more migrations of those Africa...
The short answer: no — President Donald Trump’s repeated claim that he “ended eight wars” is an exaggeration; U.S. diplomacy under his administration did help broker ceasefires, sign agreements, or pr...
The “” is a label applied to several very different ideas—most famously the alleged subterranean library beneath first publicized through ’s clairvoyant readings—and the claim has morphed into a tangl...
Scholars place the transition from scattered to recognizable “” across a broad span: transformative settlement and monumental activity appears as early as the tenth millennium BCE in parts of the Near...
The Great Pyramid’s smooth outer casing of white Tura limestone was largely lost over centuries through natural loosening and human removal, and historians record that some of those dressed casing sto...
Archaeologists and historians generally place the first civilizations in river-valley cradles of the Near East, Egypt, South Asia, China and the Americas, with urbanization and writing emerging mainly...
President Trump has repeatedly claimed he “ended” between six and eight wars since returning to the White House; reporters and fact-checkers find that his list mixes genuine ceasefires and diplomatic ...