Yalda night
Discover the history and significance of Yalda night, one of the oldest Iranian festivals, celebrated on the longest night of the year.
Ancient Education
Ancient Education and Schools
Ottomans inspired smallpox vaccine
Praise and credit in science often go to those who popularized an invention, not to those who invented the idea first. In 1840, Warren de la Rue created one of the first electric light bulbs in human history as he placed within a vacuum tube a platinum coil and glided an electric current through it,
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Al-Qarawiyyin, world’s oldest university
hen thinking of the oldest universities in the world, probably the first ones that come to most people’s minds are Oxford and Bologna, but according to UNESCO and the Guinness World Records, Al-Qarawiyyin University (also written as Al-Karaouine) is the “oldest existing, and continually operating educational institution in the world.” Founded in 859 A.D. by
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World’s oldest university
World’s oldest university The world’s oldest university is not in Europe, as most people would assume; it is in Morocco and was founded by a Muslim woman over two centuries before its more widely known predecessors When thinking of the oldest universities in the world, probably the first ones that come to most people’s minds
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