Claims that sharia law threatens Britain’s legal system ignore the country’s history of accommodating multiple legal ...

Saudi Arabia is set to transform the area around Islam’s largest and holiest site with a new project in Mecca designed to ...

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Once a crucial caravan stop on the Silk Road, Khiva is one of Central Asia’s best-preserved medieval settlements. The Uzbek ...

The show features more than 50 paintings, manuscripts, textiles and other artworks created in Western Europe between the 13th ...

The Norse sagas contain a surprising number of negative perceptions about Muslims. “It was a form of propaganda to garner ...

Ibn Al Haytham's 1,000-year-old work inspired generations of European philosophers, physicists and astronomers - but his road to recognition was a rocky one ...

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The bearded vulture, a large bird of prey with an unusual diet consisting primarily of bones, has long fascinated ornithologists. But now, a new study has shown why the bone-eating birds could be even ...

Thrift shops are known for selling second-hand items, but there are some hidden gems under those piles of stuff. People have spotted valuable finds, from an 1823 edition of the Declaration of ...

(Image credit: Katarzyna Alagierska) Archaeologists have uncovered part of a cemetery, including 1,000-year-old human skeletons, near the remains of a fortified medieval settlement in the village of ...