The Constitution, Charter or Covenant of Medina pre-dated the English Magna Carta by almost six centuries. It applied to the 10,000+ citizens living in Medina at that time. About 45-55% of the total ...

3,000 to 2,500 B.C. — The city on the hills separating the fertile Mediterranean coastline of present-day Israel from the arid deserts of Arabia was first settled by pagan tribes in what was ...

For the Vikings, Germanic tribes, and other pagan peoples of pre-Christian Europe, this celebration, known as Yule, was originally meant to honor the winter solstice. The Yule or Yuletide ...

This challenges the traditional archaeological consensus that pagan Baltic tribes exclusively sacrificed horses from local breeds while also casting light on the complex relationship these groups ...

In the coming weeks, Shaheen Buneri will explore Kalash culture, shedding some light on ''Pakistan's Last Pagan Tribe." Some call members of the Kalash tribe the descendants of Alexander the Great.

“Pagan Baltic tribes were clearly sourcing horses overseas from their Christian neighbors while simultaneously resisting converting to their religion,” Dr. Richard Madgwick, a co-author of the ...

The agreement stated that Christian missionaries would be allowed to proselytize only among pagan tribes—not Muslims. When I traversed the Mandara Mountains, about 30 percent of the people I ...

When, in the early 13th century, the East Baltic pagan tribes suffered the horrors of the Northern Crusades, it seemed that the Lithuanians would share the sad fate of other Baltic tribes crushed ...