Iliad.

Homer in a Mummy Rewrites Cultural Borders

This week's discovery of Homer's Iliad inside an Egyptian mummy has reopened an old truth: classical culture was never as neatly Greek as modern Europe likes to pretend.

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Homer in a Mummy Rewrites Cultural Borders

This week's discovery of Homer's Iliad inside an Egyptian mummy has reopened an old truth: classical culture was never as neatly Greek as modern Europe likes to pretend.

Pacifists Buy Missiles: Bern and Tokyo After Hormuz

The world's oldest armed neutrality and its most famous pacifist constitution broke in the same month.

On the River Danube: Magyar’s Opening Move

Péter Magyar won Hungary's April election promising a break with the past. His first foreign policy pitch was to resurrect a part of it.

Bab al-Mandeb: Three Ceasefires, One Trajectory

From the Red Sea to the Litani, every fragile ceasefire line across the Middle East now hums with the electricity of an approaching summer storm.

Rivals Redraw Energy Map as Germany’s Industry Stalls

As Moscow disrupts Kazakh oil flows heading west to Germany, Tehran builds a northern corridor to Kazakhstan, leaving Berlin with no leverage.