For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the ...

Middle-class punters who can’t afford ... Saudi Arabia, flanked by its coalition of vassal states and armed to the teeth with American weapons and hired mercenaries launched a full-scale ...

This represents a form of economic logic that hasn’t been practiced in the Western world since the Middle Ages. Times have changed ... A lord might accept from his vassal a sum of money (or something ...

A new textbook soon to be taught in Russian schools leans on the works of a 16th-century monk. It fits a pattern of ...

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

A Oxford Journal of Archaeology publication by Reli Avisar examines how vassal kingdoms, elite consumption, and imported ...

“The Middle Ages” comprises works located between points in time, whether the bounds of the literal Middle Ages, or middle age in an individual sense, or a moment of societal shift from one ...

Post-Assad Syria faces a grave threat from land mines and unexploded ordnance, claiming hundreds of lives and causing severe injuries, especially in former conflict zones like Idlib. Farmers and ...

"It's not good for Europe to be the permanent security vassal of the United States," Vance said, echoing his previous rebukes of EU states for alleged security and economic dependence on the ...