The peoples of ancient Anatolia developed several cultures that, although interconnected, were also distinct in several ways.

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The Truth About Empire: Real Stories of British Colonialism; By Alan Lester Hurst; 304 pp., 34.95 Pennycuick, a British Indian Army engineer, achieved deification for building the Mullaperiyar Dam ...

Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) CC BY 4.0 The Bible’s account does not give a specific date for this attack, but it does clearly place it some time after the fall of ...

The fall of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has dealt yet another major blow to Iran's so-called "Axis of Resistance", experts say. For decades, Iran has been building up its network of like ...

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