Around 700 BC, the Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II began building a new capital city, named after himself, in the desert of ...

Engravings and other evidence suggest ancient humans attended religious ceremonies in the cave as early as 37,000 years ago.

A study conducted by Dr. Azriel Yechezkel of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his colleagues from the Hebrew University ...

The settlement— known as Dur-Sharrukin —is located at the site of present-day Khorsabad, a village in northern Iraq. It was ...

A wooden and leather shield used by a Roman soldier in battle Where it is from: Dura-Europos, Syria When it was made: Second century A.D. Related: Babylonian tablet preserves student's 4,000-year-old ...

Long before the rise of the city of Babylon the old city-states of Accad and Lagash held ... In the premises of another Vishnu temple at Moolai were discovered some ‘vestiges of ancient remains of ...

Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across ...

Israelis are living life without a security blanket. It is frightening. But like Jacob, they still dream of something better.

Cylinder seals from Ur, c. 2450 BC, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, USA In the first article of this series, I provided a brief historical overview of the Neo-Assyrian, Urartian, and Achaemenid empires, ...

Artefacts from a Mesopotamian archaeological site suggest that people in the region founded and later rejected an early form ...

The Mercator Projection, Ptolemy’s ‘Geographia’, the Fra Mauro Map, and even Google Maps have all shaped how we experience ...

I’ve always wanted to write about that city, because this is the city that truly inspired me to become an architect,” she ...