Water has emerged as a new front for power and leverage in a region already burdened by war, political instability, and ...

The Acropolis Museum participates in the celebration of International Museum Day with a series of special activities for its ...

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

Archaeologists have unearthed a peculiar ancient stone slab in Iraq depicting an Assyrian emperor from the seventh century BC ...

Sifting through the tan dirt of northern Iraq, archaeologists looked at the remnants of an ancient empire’s capital city.

The writer and scholar Robert Macfarlane has spent much of his life climbing up mountains and fishing on rivers, and his ...

KOCHI: For over two millennia, Kerala’s majestic urus – handcrafted wooden dhows – ruled the waves of maritime trade, ...

Archaeologists from Heidelberg University have made a discovery in Iraq, unearthing fragments of a monumental bas-relief ...

I often refer to Clarke County as “the Mesopotamia of Alabama,” especially when asked “where are you from?” The initial response is always a non-verbal, bewildered look. The former social studies ...

Archaeologists uncovered a relief of King Ashurbanipal with Assyrian gods in ancient Nineveh, offering new insight into Mesopotamian art.

Gunung Padang, a megalith in West Java, Indonesia, is a striking sight, a lush hill dotted with a collection of sharp, ...

It seems like every other slot machine has an ancient Egypt theme, with pyramids, mythological characters or symbols. Ancient ...