Art is a space where conversations collide in Maryam Yousif’s whimsical, cheeky and thoughtful three-dimensional ...
Newly analyzed 5,000-year-old clay bowls unearthed in Iraq may be evidence of early government-like rule, a new study finds.
David Tresilian continues his tour of world Egyptological collections after the soft opening of Egypt’s Grand Egyptian Museum ...
When Joan Juliet Buck agreed to interview Asma al-Assad for Vogue in 2010, she had no idea it would destroy her livelihood ...
Najaf is an ancient town. It was historically part of the Babylonian civilisation of Mesopotamia. It is said that many ...
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, ...
As its name indicates, the Spanish Cape of Finisterre (finis terrae) was considered in Antiquity as the westernmost limit of ...
During these centuries, a common, unspoken language of symbols often reflected the region's shifting geopolitics, allegiances ...
In 1979 the Oriental Institute at Baroda published a paper entitled The Hebrews belong to a branch of Vedic Aryans This was a followup to a previous article on the same topic published by the same aut ...
Drama series set in the sexy world of the luxury five star hotel, on a journey beyond the facade of the smiling faces and glittering chandeliers and into the frenetic, non-stop world of the staff ...
On the side of the coin on the left is a man's head facing right, wearing a lion's skin headdress on top of head, tied around neck. The other side of the coin depicts a man seated on a throne facing ...
An intaglio dark grey, hematite object in the shape of a cylinder with flat ends. It stands upright on a pale grey background. It is engraved with an image of a seated man facing the viewer’s right ...