Part travelogue, part geopolitical survey, this entertaining book looks at how the country’s Near Eastern connections are being knitted back together ...

At first, the archaeologists assumed the images came from Homer’s Iliad, the best-known account of the war. The scenes seemed ...

An ancient historian at the University of Leicester has found that the Rutland mosaic presents a version of the Trojan War that differs from the story told in Homer’s Iliad. Researchers studying what ...

Southampton is a city shaped by its waters, but amid its bustling docks and marinas there is a secret sliver of history that many people who live ...

The Olympic flame continues its journey across Sicily after stopping at the acient port city of Catania, as it continues to ...

Picochess is a chess program for the Raspberry Pi that you can use to carry out analyses, train openings, and master games.

In July, the American grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky played a speed chess game against the Swedish chess master and popular ...

Wafi Group and ALMAD Group have announced the signing of a landmark partnership formalised in Dubai by H.H. Sheikh Mana bin ...

A beast of a unit in the tabletop wargame, Achilles is also the lynchpin of the lore for the Next Wave faction of ...

PM Modi gifted Russia President Vladimir Putin a collection of Indian treasures, including Assam tea, silver tea set, Kashmiri saffron, and a marble chess set, reflecting cultural ties ...

With his Gaelic name and love of board games, 6ft 3in, russet-bearded furniture-maker Eion Gibbs bears more than a passing resemblance to his medieval predecessors, those Norse-Gaels who whiled away ...