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Cats Domesticated Themselves, Ancient DNA Shows. A comprehensive survey of cat genes suggests that even after felines wandered into our lives, they remained largely unchanged for thousands of years.

Square in Shiraz, Fars Province, tells the story of the triumph of the ancient civilization of Iran, whether it be over the ...

Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

In one of the best Hadith collections, Saheeh Muslim in particular, there are a number of hadiths which some scholars said were weak or problematic, including Abu’l-Hasan ad-Daaraqtni, Abu ‘Ali ...

So many of us writers, translators, and readers are accustomed to the translation process that it can be surprising to learn ...

St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has announced a new graduate program that reshapes what it means to study the ...

If I weren’t a person, I’d be a mushroom,’ the narrator thinks in Olga Tokarczuk’s House of Day, House of Night.* In Drive ...