How an Afghan tribal leader took on two of the most powerful empires in the world ... been in Safavid hands for half a century. Yet, all was not well for the Safavids. The Safavid dynasty found ...

Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between ...

The Safavid Dynasty, a Golden Age in Iran, witnessed a cultural flowering under the charismatic Isma'il and and his son Tahmasp, the first two Shahs of the dynasty. This essay is a short history of ...

This course is capped at 15 students. Course content: Following the Mongol incursions into the heartlands of the Islamic world, the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal dynasties arose to establish novel forms ...

A stunning and informative graphic from the National Post. Why are we doing this? How can we possibly afford it? Over to you, Bill Kauffman. This is a good place to commend to you my TAC colleague ...

The history of the Medes and of the Persian Achaemenid dynasty (named for an ancestor ... and it has sometimes been a contested war zone, as in the Safavid period. Achaemenid relations with kindred ...

She was named Mihr un-Nisa at birth and was later named Nur Jahan (light of the world) by her husband ... amid increasing intolerance under the Safavid dynasty to seek refuge in the more liberal ...

Welcome to part three of this history of the world through objects ... where their great rival in the east, the Shia Safavid Empire, was always trying to challenge the Ottomans; in North Africa ...

In the 1990s, China began sending pandas to foreign zoos to be bred, in the hope that future generations could be released into the wild. It hasn’t gone as planned. By Mara Hvistendahl and Joy ...

Ahad Raza Mir on Rajib's story. World on Fire is an adrenalized, emotionally gripping, and resonant World War II drama that follows the intertwining fates of ordinary people in multiple countries ...

By Anupreeta Das A recent excavation has unearthed 12 human skeletons and a chamber of grave offerings near Petra’s Treasury building, a UNESCO World Heritage site. By Ali Watkins The Canadian ...