The mighty Bronze Age kingdoms and empires took decades to crumble, and the city-states of the early Iron Age took decades to cohere. History is one sequel after another, and in “After 1177 B.C ...

Perched on the edge of a river near the city of Siirt, Türkiye, is an archaeological site that offers a chance to completely ...

At the threshold of written history, when the first civilizations began to consolidate in Mesopotamia and Anatolia, the world ...

AMMAN — For decades, many scholars have attempted to connect the Bronze Age with urbanism in the Levant ... (e.g. Egyptian and Mesopotamian empires) on local or indigenous cultures, but also ...

Modern Kazakhstan is built upon a foundation of different cultures, khanates, and empires across history ... origins could rest in the ancient Bronze Age or even Turkish cultures dated to the ...

the great religions of the age created images that would bring the faithful closer to their gods, and how those religions became embedded in the great empires of the time. We've had images of the ...

Each god needed an image – usually a statue or relief in stone or bronze – and an altar or temple at which to offer prayers and sacrifices. Requests and prayers were presented to gods as a ...

These villages became cities and then the world’s first empires, witnessing developments like bureaucracy and giant construction projects that we often label “civilization.” The answer to why our ...