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.

Throughout history, cities have undergone significant transformations when they opened themselves to cultural diversity, ...

There are parts of the excavation site that date back to the Sasanian Empire of the 3 rd through 7 th centuries, but a ...

While excavating the 19/3 site in Iraq’s Al-Fayadiya district, a team led by archaeologist Quhtan Abbas Hassan Aboud has ...

Today, we are smothered in a fake storyline, a fake origin myth for economics. Margaret Thatcher typifies this attitude. You ...

Inside a campy dinner theater known for over-the-top revelry and clashing swords, Rick Grimes found something profound.

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 ...

While the Turkish ruling elites wanted to strengthen their hands and tighten their ranks in the face of the escalation of 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 ...

The oldest surviving wheel is the Ljubljana Marshes Wheel, discovered in Slovenia, and estimated to be over 5,100 years old.

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 ...

Some studies point to northern Turkey as the place where the wheel was invented around 3800BC while others speculate it was ...