A Christian empire that inherited classical learning, Byzantium preserved pagan texts via schools, new script, scholia, and ...

Arabic is spoken by more than 400 million people. Can you recognise these Arabic words that made their way into English?

Mention “perfume” and one might first envision fragrant liquids in fancy flacons. Yet the name itself, derived from the Latin ...

A curated list of 25 remarkable books published in 2025 spotlighting resistance, memory, identity, and the human stories ...

This year, HT reviewers found themselves reading everything from children’s books to a 1,100-year-old Arabic text about dogs being more virtuous and capable than humans. Historical fiction set in the ...