After November 1918, the Ottomans were the last monarchy left standing, but occupation, partition plans, and a rising nationalist movement made the sultan’s position untenable. This story traces the ...

Two prehistoric genomes have revealed the history of HPV and challenged the idea that Neanderthals first transmitted the ...

The expansion of one of the Mediterranean’s strongest powers wasn’t only driven by conquest, but also infrastructure. By ...

On October 7, 1571, a coalition of Christian states faced the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto. The Ottomans had dominated the Mediterranean for decades and threatened southern Europe itself.

The stories of history’s greatest empires reveal a recurring pattern: conquest without restraint, expansion without limits and an inevitable fall ...

Intifada in Arabic means to shake off; shudder, shiver, tremble, or to wake up. However, the Second Intifada (2000-2005) was ...

Just a year later, Bulgarian microbiologist Stamen Grigorov discovered that the basis of yogurt is a bacterium subsequently ...

Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent used war and conquest to expand the Ottoman Empire during his bloody but prosperous reign in the 16th century. In addition to the honorific ‘the Magnificent’, he is ...

Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx, revealed several things she did when she first started her billion-dollar brand that she now calls “unhinged.” Some of them include pitching Oprah Winfrey on her ...

NORTH AUGUSTA — The city of North Augusta’s Arbor Day program was especially meaningful this year as it honored a woman who dedicated her life to Living History Park. Linda (Lynn) Sargent Thompson was ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...