For decades it was merely a sidewalk stone at a home in the Middle East, its significance unbeknownst to its owner. Now, the ...
The Arab Muslim victory at the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah paved the way for the Islamic conquest of Mesopotamia and Persia.
The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.