A recent UN report refers to “reproductive violence”; Israel targeting women, their existential and institutional means of ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

This is everything from the Epic of Gilgamesh, which is the first time this apocalyptic story of the flood — that then appears in the Hebrew Bible, in the Christian Bible, in the Quran ...

First, in the 1870s, George Smith identified two pre-biblical accounts of a hero divinely commissioned to build an ark and so save the denizens of the world from a cosmic flood. Reading The Epic of ...

It was a development in the Syrian drama almost as unexpected as the stunningly swift fall of the Assad regime that had ...