Levant's Agora

23/06/2026

By M. Reza Behnam. Long before it became the jugular vein of the modern global economy, this narrow waterway was the sacred and strategic maritime gateway to the Persian empire The strategic and sp…

23/06/2026

https://levantsagora.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/history-today-the-crusade-of-hormuz/

By John Aspinwall. Looking for a new route to Jerusalem, medieval crusaders turned to the Strait of Hormuz. In 1514, as the new dome of St Peter’s Basilica began to rise above Rome, one of its cano…

22/06/2026

By Stephanie Pappas. Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as the Great Pyramid of Khufu, has stood for more than 4,600 years, even through powerful earthquakes. Now, new research explain…

22/06/2026

By Joe Phelan. The vast empire was divided into two states in the fourth century A.D. An old adage states that Rome wasn’t built in a day, meaning that big projects take time to complete. The…

27/05/2026

ScienceAlert: Evidence of Ancient Life Found Buried Under an Asteroid Crater

By Michelle Starr. Somehow, on this beautiful blue marble we call Earth, the astonishing phenomenon we call life emerged long ago, spreading until it covered nearly every corner of the planet. One …

26/05/2026

Cyprus Mail: Is demographic collapse a good idea?

By Gwynne Dyer. Smart phones seem to be directly linked to a worldwide crash in the birth rate. It is “quite plausible that the modern digital media environment has had profound effects on society …

26/05/2026

The Conversation: Why was an Egyptian mummy stuffed with a fragment of Homer’s Iliad?
# History

By Stephan Blum & Stefan Baumann. Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad. It wasn’t placed beside the body,…

25/05/2026

Live Science: Why did the Roman Empire split in two?

By Joe Phelan. The vast empire was divided into two states in the fourth century A.D. An old adage states that Rome wasn’t built in a day, meaning that big projects take time to complete. The…

24/05/2026

History.com: This Day In History (May 24-1917): British naval convoy system introduced

By History.com Editors. On May 24, 1917, driven by the spectacular success of the German U-boat submarines and their attacks on Allied and neutral ships at sea, the British Royal Navy introduces a …

24/05/2026

Live Science: Great Pyramid of Giza is remarkably resilient to earthquakes —‬ and it’s due to the ancient Egyptians’ ‘extraordinary’ engineering knowledge

By Stephanie Pappas. Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as the Great Pyramid of Khufu, has stood for more than 4,600 years, even through powerful earthquakes. Now, new research explain…