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13 Jun 2024, 5:48 am by Mark Nevitt
For millennia, Morocco has been a place of transit for migrants leaving sub-Saharan Africa and seeking to get to Europe. [read post]
9 Jun 2024, 1:18 pm by Ilya Somin
For millennia, with few exceptions, the world was marked by despotism, slavery, hierarchy, rigid class privilege, and literally no increase in the standard of living over hundreds of years. [read post]
4 Jun 2024, 5:51 am by Melissa Stewart
On May 21, 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) issued the first-ever opinion by an international court or tribunal articulating States’ obligations with respect to climate change. [read post]
31 May 2024, 11:35 am by Yosi Yahoudai
This exhibit can, he said “upend the notion of a monolithic early China and update it with the story of many distinct cultures interlinking into one over millennia. [read post]
24 May 2024, 2:12 pm
In addition, from the religious point of view, it is likely that Israel will continue to view the criticism as just another episode in millennia old patterns of dealing with a substantially despised (and sometimes feared) population  Whatever the realities, that produces a singularly low level of trust in whatever assurances or performances of (especially critical) States with long histories of unfortunate relations with "their" Jews. [read post]
23 May 2024, 7:21 pm by Howard Friedman
It was on the Day of Vesak two and a half millennia ago, in the year 623 B.C., that the Buddha was born. [read post]
20 May 2024, 7:32 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Now, archaeologists have uncovered a crucial piece of the construction puzzle – a long-lost branch of the Nile River, buried beneath desert sands for millennia, that could finally explain how the ancient Egyptians transported massive stones (some of which weigh upwards of 10 tonnes) to build these monuments. [read post]
14 May 2024, 12:41 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
Last summer’s blazing hot temperatures weren’t just the hottest of our lifetimes; they were the tops for two millennia, according to a study. [read post]
9 May 2024, 7:53 pm by Josh Blackman
These arguments have brought to the forefront an issue that has pervaded Judaism for millennia: there is no single Jewish religion. [read post]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) affirmed Italy’s right to recover a millennia-old bronze sculpture from a Malibu museum on Thursday in a case that weighed the importance of a nation’s cultural heritage against fundamental property rights. [read post]
26 Apr 2024, 2:22 pm by Josh Blackman
In December I wrote: Regrettably, as soon as Israel was established, the millennia-long train of anti-semitism simply morphed into its latest manifestation: anti-Zionism. [read post]
15 Apr 2024, 9:05 pm by Molly Candon
Psychedelics have been used for millennia, but they have only recently hit the medical mainstream. [read post]
13 Apr 2024, 5:57 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
”That we can empathise so strongly with a man who lived five millennia ago is a remarkably powerful link to our shared human past. [read post]
12 Apr 2024, 7:54 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Here is the abstract: Anthropogenic climate change is increasingly causing disruptions to ecological communities upon which Natives have relied for millennia, raising existential threats not only to ecosystems but to Native communities. [read post]
10 Apr 2024, 2:20 pm by Josh Blackman
This image appeals to the ancient blood libel that has pervaded anti-semitic propaganda for millennia. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 6:00 am by Lawrence Solum
  Of course, the nature of the human good is a deep topic--one that that has been debated by philosophers, psychologists, economists, theologians, and others for millennia. [read post]
3 Mar 2024, 6:01 am
The water, steeping in a millennia’s-worth of minerals, was some five times saltier than the ocean and about 20 inches deep. [read post]
29 Feb 2024, 5:00 am by The Petrie-Flom Center Staff
In Nepal, Indigenous Peoples with disabilities have Indigenous values and knowledge of how to live sustainably and adapt to harsh geo-ecological conditions over millennia, as well as experiential knowledge of disability. [read post]
26 Jan 2024, 12:00 pm by Howard Friedman
On October 7 Hamas terrorists unleashed pure, unadulterated evil on the people of Israel....In the aftermath of Hamas’s vicious massacre, we have witnessed an alarming rise of despicable antisemitism at home and abroad that has surfaced painful scars from millennia of hate and genocide of Jewish people. [read post]