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For centuries, innumerable countries were ruled by an entrenched, typically inherited, political class: the "aristocracy." The term comes from the Ancient Greek words "aristos", meaning best, and ...

The reason could be the forthcoming 90th birthday of the Tibetan leader, as in 2011, the Dalai Lama had announced that he ...

The 200-year-old tile game is popping up in clubs, hotels and parties as a way for Gen Zers and millennials to connect ...

Jingjue in Niya was one of 36 vanished states in the western region of ancient China. Important heritage and artifacts from ...

The international community must take action to address the CO2 emissions of the carbon aristocracy as climate change ...

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss President Trump's third week back in office, DOGE and Elon Musk's ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that a house in England is the site of a lost residence of Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England.

As Lunar New Year approaches, the once-endangered folk tradition of stilt walking is undergoing something of a revival in ...

Based in what is modern-day Ukraine and southern Russia, they called themselves Scoloti (Ancient Greek: Σκώλοτοι) and were led by a nomadic warrior aristocracy known as ... India and China, which most ...

Herodes Atticus is a name familiar to many, thanks to the ancient odeon beneath the Acropolis of Athens ... The odeon was built in 161 AD by Herodes Atticus, a wealthy Greek aristocrat who was also a ...

Greek philosopher Aristotle used the term to describe the rule of aristocracy ... Some have called China an oligarchy because leadership has remained in the hands of a few for several decades ...