Spy satellite images lead archeologists to the site of a historic battle in Iraq
A joint team of archaeologists from the Durham University and the University of Al-Qadisiyah stumbled across the site while ...
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Declassified spy satellite images reveal 1,400-year-old battle site in Iraq that set off the Muslim conquest
Historical texts that mentioned details about the battle site helped researchers match the images to the lost town of ...
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First Map of Known World Created by Ancient Greek Anaximander
The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.
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The Moroccan Uniform Nusach? The Story of the Nachalat Avot Siddur
The siddur’s opening pages include an introduction by Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Toledano, who describes the uniqueness and ancient character of the Moroccan nusach, while addressing much broader historical p ...
World out of order, on the cusp of catastrophe
Whatever you think of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, come January, the next four years promise to be critical in ...
A quarter of the world’s people observe Ramadan. What’s it for and what are the rules?
Most of the world’s 1.9 billion Muslims – roughly a quarter of the Earth’s people – observe the rites of Ramadan annually, ...