Abdullaev became a jobless poet who lived in modesty verging on poverty, but frequently travelled to literary festivals in the former Soviet Union, Europe and the United States. Like hundreds of ...

This 1464 translation by William Caxton was the first book printed in English. The Hortus Eystettensis was a work ... or simply "The Geography," this book written by the Greco-Roman Claudius Ptolemy ...

The scholar Roger Boase writes: “Abraham is the key (first) ecumenical figure in the Qur’an, mentioned by ... following two major revolts against Roman rule (66-70 CE and 132-135 CE ...

A 2,000-year-old copper knife handle depicting a gladiator will go on display at Hadrian’s Wall, in the north of England, ...

The Qur’an, in fact, assures the listener that this will never be the case. Indeed, one could argue that in the Second Temple Era, our divisiveness served to empower the Roman’s over us.

The object is testament to how pervasive gladiator celebrity culture was, reaching all the way to Hadrian’s Wall at the very edge of the Roman Empire, says Frances McIntosh, English Heritage’s ...

Jesus (Isa), Moses (Musa) and Abraham (Ibrahim) are other respected prophets. The Muslim holy book is called the Qur'an. Muslims believe this to be the word of Allah as dictated to Muhammad.

Early in the 11th century, a Benedictine Abbot established All Souls' Day as a day to pray for the souls of deceased family ...

Recounting the time his family spent in a former Italian brothel, André Aciman’s new memoir, “Roman Year,” picks up where 1994’s “Out of Egypt” left off. By Aminatta Forna Aminatta ...

French-Polish director Roman Polanski, who fled the United States decades ago after admitting to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old, will no longer face trial over an alleged assault of another ...

Roman Polanski settled a lawsuit over an alleged sexual assault of a minor more than 50 years ago. The Oscar-winning director no longer faces a 10-day trial in the U.S. after reaching a settlement ...