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Archaeologists have found 5,000-year-old ancient Egyptian rock art in the Sinai Desert that depicts the conquest of the region.

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Alexander the Great conquered the region around 329 B.C.E., leaving behind Greek and Macedonian settlers who intermarried with locals. Their descendants eventually formed new kingdoms whose legacies ...

Earliest European illustration of a cannon, dating to 1326(The Picture Art Collection/Alamy Stock Photo) Historians have long regarded the Song Dynasty as militarily weak because the nomadic Liao, Jin ...

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The two traditional villages of Xidi and Hongcun preserve to a remarkable extent the appearance of non-urban settlements of a type that largely disappeared or was transformed during the last century.