And this chariot was found in a very distant province, right on the far eastern edge of the empire, somewhere on the borders of modern Tajikistan and Afghanistan. It's part of a huge hoard of gold and ...

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

Natufian spindle whorls from 12,000 years ago represent the earliest fast-spinning technology in the Levant, shedding light ...

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Eelam is mentioned in the very oldest Babylonian inscriptions ... settlers in the Batticaloa district from the 13 century AD onwards. Several writers on the history of Jaffna, basing their studies on ...

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

We tend to think of history and the past as being fairly static, but as these pictures show, they're actually pretty dynamic ...

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

Two years after protests against Iran’s strict dress codes rocked the nation, a new “chastity and hijab” law was passed this week by Iran’s hardline parliament and approved by the Guardian Council, ...

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Researchers Decipher Writings on 4000-Year-Old Babylonian Cuneiform Tablets, Say The Messages Predicted 'Danger' Researchers have deciphered the inscription on a set of four clay tablets they ...