Land reform in South Africa has followed a familiar script—conquest, displacement, and struggle. The names change, but the fights remain the same.

A major astronomical discovery has just been made using the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa. A giant radio galaxy, named ...

This unique degree programme offers training in an unparalleled range of ancient languages and their associated history, culture and textual traditions. Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin ...

But the citrus genus has a surprising history, popping up everywhere from ancient Rome and the Renaissance to naval exploration and Casanova's famed romantic trysts. The history of citrus dates ...

The Sterkfontein excavation site, which exposes the ancient deposits that once formed underground and contain Australopithecus fossils. The fossil-bearing red sediments clearly contrast with the grey ...

He writes, among others, of Sindiwe Magona, A Xhosa writer who worked as a domestic servant and clawed her way into education and the written word despite the aggressions of the Bantu Education ...

Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Derveni Papyrus, named for the ...

This flexible degree programme with three different routes offers the opportunity to develop expertise in one or more ancient languages, from Ancient Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Hittite, Akkadian or ...

The release of Cecil B. DeMille’s Samson and Delilah in 1949 heralded the return of the ancient world to the screen. It’s a movie filled with blood, desire, and a doomed romance, as the ...