Translators of the Bible have rarely understood the need or made the effort to convey the literary...
Matthew McIntosh
In short, the new fragment reveals a vision of humanity as a process of maturation that unfolds...
Political and spiritual progenitors of a thermonuclear war – World War III. Abstract Recently, two powerful personalities...
Vision is a window onto the world, its qualities determined by natural selection. Evolution has favoured the...
Humans stand out among all the mammals as being the only species to totter about on two...
Many of the protected open spaces that we have today have been inherited from one or more...
It has fallen on textile conservators to keep historic textiles preserved, and a surprising amount of science...
From ‘Six studies of a cat’ by Thomas Gainsborough, 1763–70 The poet Christopher Smart — also known...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and company’s curious but longstanding fixation with the furry oddity that is the wombat...
Urban farming can make it easier for city residents to obtain healthy, affordable food. During the partial...
In forsaking planning, we are determined to fail. This will be the century of urbanisation, when seven...
Working out how many people lived in ancient Egypt is far from an easy task. By Dr. Steven...
The location of towns and cities in ancient Egypt was dictated by two principal factors. By Dr. Steven...
Fay Chong and Andrew Chinn were Asian American artists who made major contributions to the two most...
Fook Shing spent 20 years as a Melbourne gumshoe. He policed the thriving Chinese community – claiming...
The United States and European powers had grown increasingly dissatisfied with treaties following the First Opium War....
Western powers tried to gain unfettered access to Chinese products and markets for European and U.S. trade....
How a research team identified parasites in ‘hygiene sticks’ that travellers on the Silk Road effectively used...
The Silk Road provided a conduit not only for silk, but also offered a very important path...
Looking for a way to solve a problem, Tim Berners-Lee launched a revolution. Sir Tim Berners-Lee is...
On October 29, 1969, an experiment at UCLA sparked a communication revolution, the implications of which are...
The record is unique in European history and, packed full of statistics and snippets which reveal details...
Heraldry began on the mid-12th century CE battlefield as an easy means to identify medieval royalty and...
Bahrain has a unique, indigenous middle class, which contributes to the tendency of that nation being more...
The great commercial and trading connections between Mesopotamia and Dilmun were strong and profound. Introduction Dilmun, or Telmun,[2]...
With the rise of Zionism in the 19th century, land was purchased for settlement – they they...
Messianic Jews consider themselves Jewish Christians. When Loren Jacobs, member of the Shma Yisrael Congregation, offered a...
The Sykes-Picot Agreement created the modern Middle East. It represents one of the first installments in a...
Israel’s dominance of the Democratic Party is eroding and increasingly losing legitimacy in the eyes of the...
During the Holocaust, the remaining Hasidic centres in Eastern Europe were destroyed and the Hasidim who lived there...