Was Jerusalem destroyed in 587 or 607 BCE? Often overlooked in this controversy is some evidence from Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian.

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Who was Byzas, the legendary Greek founder of the city of Byzantium? This article examines where he was from, what he did, ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

My grandparents’ house on Snipatuit Rd. (one of Rochester’s older houses) was a rambling structure with an added-on addition ...

In the Virgin Islands and on Puerto Rican soil over 100 years ago, a child was born who gave his contribution to Black ...

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Feb. 10, 2025 — Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and ...

A titan of historical scholarship, Ogot was more than Kenya’s preeminent historian; he was a teacher, a researcher and a ...