The Vatican — with its politics, its pageantry and its power — has long been a favorite subject for artists and thinkers.

The work tackles a vast timeline, condensing centuries of Islamic history into a 120cm x 180cm ... reference to the achievements of the female thinkers and intellectuals of the Islamic Golden ...

This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Throughout history, small states have come out of nowhere, and rapidly become great powers. This was the ...

She read widely and corresponded with many of the prominent thinkers of the era, including Voltaire and Diderot. She was a patron of the arts, literature and education and acquired an art ...