I did not mean to write a book about my mother tongue going extinct – because if you’d told me, at any point in my childhood ...

With that idea in mind, as a historian of science, my best answer to the question of what the first scientists discovered is Babylonian astronomy. The Babylonians lived from about 2,500 to 4,000 ...

Introduction Europeans have tried to steal the history of Black Egypt to make it white . The controversial figure they use in this plot is Pharaoh Nana Ramse , whom they succeeded in painting as white ...

in Aramaic, as well as the ancient Babylonian Judeo-Arabic that my family spoke in Iraq. Then my grandparents would call Rafi and me over. In an act of generational continuity, they would tie ...

"As we celebrate this holiday and approach the elections, I see an urgent necessity to transition to a new phase of thinking ...

When Paul mentioned Jannes and Jambres in 2 Timothy 3:8, his audience likely knew who these men were, but readers today often ...

We've plumbed the depths of darkness to assemble a list of the very best gothic boy names and gothic girl names. Some have ...

Sometimes when you’re naming a child (or crafting a character for a game or novel), an ordinary name just won’t do. You may want a name that hints at darkness and otherworldly mystery—that ...