Ruled by Hammurabi, restored by Nebuchadrezzar, conquered by Cyrus—this city in the heart of Mesopotamia was both desired and despised, placing it at the center stage of the dawn of history.
In 1279, his empire overrun by the invading Mongols, China's last Sung emperor was cast into the sea. Kublai Khan became lord of an empire that stretched from Korea to Mesopotamia. In the ...
As the food historians Colleen Taylor Sen writes in her Feasts and Fasts: a History of Food in India, the grilling of meat “directly on a fire, skewered on sticks was common in ancient Mesopotamia and ...
This is the vision presented by American historians and archaeologists, who support a theory that the wheel was first invented in the territory of modern-day Slovakia, writes the Czech public ...