Tolkien's Lord of the Rings world is full of fantasy wonder, but Middle Earth is a complex environment that lacks luxury and ...

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In an official blog post, Z-Man Games provides an overview of Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship. It is, as expected, ...

The Return of the King, Frodo, and several other characters departed from the Grey Havens on a voyage to the Undying Lands.

Despite a steady decline in the middle class across the majority of the U.S., a handful of cities have begun to see the opposite. According to a new study, California in particular has several ...

New findings at Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets and monumental ruins, reveal insights into Middle Bronze Age life and ...

The Middle East is undergoing a profound transformation as new rivalries reshape its geopolitical order. For decades, the defining conflict in the region was a “cold war” between Iran and the ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, together with an international team, carried out an ...

A new satellite has mapped Earth's ocean floors in unprecedented detail, a new study reveals. . The first year of measurements from NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite ...

Most Americans are unaware that today’s Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats (Sykes and Picot) after World War I to advance their empires’ economic ...

MANILA, Philippines — To be finally called an “upper middle-income country (MIC)” sounds good to the ears. And this year, we have repeatedly heard the economic team of President Marcos tout ...

While Tolkien's stories take place in the fictional realm of Middle-earth, the awe-inspiring landscapes of the books, films and TV shows are closer than you might imagine. The first book in J R R ...