Is there any evidence that king Atreus of Mycenae really existed? Can he be identified with the Attarsiya of ancient Hittite records?

A remarkable discovery of thousands of clay tablets revealed the long forgotten Hittite civilization, its language, religion, and laws. These records opened a rare window into one of the earliest Indo ...

For centuries the Trojan War was dismissed as myth, yet Hittite tablets and archaeological evidence suggest a far more complex reality. This episode explores how a powerful Anatolian empire may have ...

Did the legendary kings of Troy really exist? Some researchers argue that they appear in Hittite letters, but is this really the case?

An exhibition of 3,000-year-old artefacts at Battersea power station gives Egypt’s most ambitious, self-aggrandising pharaoh a chance to emerge from Tutankhamun’s shadow ...

There’s something kind of magical about looking at stuff from the past; it’s like a tiny peek into how people lived, worked, ...

Huckabee's comments drew swift condemnation from across the region, with U.S. allies expressing discomfort with his remarks.

Marco Rubio gave a speech Saturday to the Munich Security Conference in which he extolled an ideal that’s supposedly long out of fashion. “We are part of one civilization: Western civilization,” the U ...

As Bar Ilan University professor Joshua Berman engagingly and convincingly demonstrates in his “Echoes of Egypt” Haggadah, the process by which the Passover story took shape was as a polemic against ...

Today, India, despite global scrutiny, has maintained a principled partnership with Iran, balancing its energy and strategic ...

In a culture that glamorises the "hustle," we have become a society addicted to the grind. We are constantly "on," moving ...

How well do you know ancient and modern history key terms and events? Check out the answers, explanations, and UPSC relevance ...