Myths about how the Black Death traveled quickly across Asia, ravaging Silk Route communities, date back to a single ...

For Inaam Kachachi, writing is an act of resistance. The Iraqi novelist and journalist uses fiction to hold on to a version ...

Reading is a complex cognitive skill that predicts career prospects and social mobility throughout our lifetimes. For ...

Manama, Oct. 21 (BNA): Under the patronage of His Highness Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Representative of His Majesty the King for Humanitarian Work and Youth Affairs, Bahrain Islamic Bank ...

A new study shows how a medieval text was misread as history, shaping how the Black Death’s spread was understood for ...

A new study reveals that modern ideas about the Black Death’s rapid spread across Asia stem from a centuries-old ...

In April 2024, Tim Davie — the BBC director general who resigned on Sunday — was dealing with yet another crisis at the ...

According to the study, large language models (LLMs) are not neutral technologies but cultural artefacts shaped by human history, data practices, and social hierarchies. the investigation demonstrates ...

The revelation centers on a text called a "maqāma" - an Arabic literary genre featuring traveling tricksters - written by the poet and historian Ibn al-Wardi in 1348-49 in Aleppo, according to the new ...

Oliver Laxe, the spiritually minded, 6-foot-6-inch French-born Galician director, knows that his new film, “Sirāt,” has given ...