At the beginning of the 2nd century BCE, two major powers vied for the Mediterranean. In the west, the Romans had recently ...

Emerging in Anatolia, now known as Turkey, around 1600 BCE, they forged an empire that rivalled even that of the great ...

Yet, Pakistan suffers from what I call a 'self-inflicted syndrome', lurching from one crisis to another, dogged by poor ...

This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

Empires rise like wildfires—how do we measure their scars? One way to measure the march of human history would be the timeline of “The Empires.” The Akkadian Empire (circa 2334–2154 BCE), is widely ...

We know this for a fact: For the first time, direct chemical evidence of these drugs has been found, in residual traces left ...

Alexander the Great and Cyrus the Great both share the role of featuring in important Jewish prophecies. What exactly do ...

Using statistical methods from field of ecological biodiversity, Israeli scholars analyze 1,000 First Temple period names and ...

The buried roots and stumps of an ancient forest in southern China are the charred remains of an ancient war and the burning of a capital city, according to a recent study from researchers who ...