Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

I don’t do drugs; I do bins.” By turns introspective, inquisitive, and funny, the book is a love letter to nature and the ...

An overlooked Agatha Christie mystery, set in Ancient Egypt, deviates from the author's typical murder mysteries and deserves ...

As the rising powers of Germany and Japan sought to emulate established colonial titans, the world was consumed by war.

Amy Lee, 63, from San Diego, is draped in a homemade Stars and Stripes dress, emblazoned with the Statue of Liberty, a ...

This “Last Dynasty,” as the Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson has termed it, held on—despite frequent infighting, enormous overspending and bitter succession battles—until 30 B.C., when Roman ...

Finding out that a favourite film or TV show was a book first is a great feeling, a real mix of excitement and relief – why not spend your spare time travelling towards Mordor, exploring the ...

Situated in the lower Zagros mountain range, Susa is identified as Shushan in the Book of Esther and other Biblical books ... After the fall of the Achaemenid Empire and the reign of Alexander the ...

The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia was one of the pivotal moments of antiquity. Credit: Georges Rochegrosse, / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons ...

Cyrus, founder of the Achaemenid Empire, usually appears in Greek sources ... it upholds the version of Cyrus in the Bible as a liberator. In the Book of Ezra, Cyrus allowed the Jews, who had ...

Credit: Internet Archive Book Images / No restrictions / Wikimedia Commons Following ... By the 6th century BCE, Cyprus was absorbed into the expanding Persian Achaemenid Empire. The Cypriot ...