This was the office of Salem Abdullah, archaeological director of the ancient city of Assur, which once thrived on this rock as the capital of the Assyrian Empire. Abdullah, who was raised in a ...

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Mesopotamia, located in the fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was one of the cradles of civilization ...

The couple's divorce after nearly three decades of marriage brought on nightmares and panic attacks, she explains in the memoir, according to excerpts published by People magazine. French Gates ...

Judges should take into account what each part brought to the marriage in terms of finance and time. “Clearly, a stay-at-home mom or dad who last worked 30 years ago and doesn’t have any ...

The International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama returns this summer with impressive, contemporary renditions of long-standing tales. Once again, top-tier theatre companies have been chosen to ...

Spanish Muslims retrace ancient Hajj route on horseback from Andalusia to Mecca Abdelkader Harkassi Aidi, Tarek Rodriguez and Abdallah Rafael Hernandez Mancha set out from southern Spain in ...

Tucked away on Spain’s beautiful Costa Brava, one of these ancient Greek colonies, called Emporion, was a truly remarkable Greek settlement that thrived far from metropolitan Greece on the other side ...

A wooden hunter’s toolbox inscribed with an ancient writing system from Zambia has been making waves on social media. "We've grown up being told that Africans didn't know how to read and write ...

In the upcoming documentary about the legendary singer's life, Billy Joel: And So It Goes, Joel, 76, recalls his first wife and former business manager, Elizabeth Weber, ending their marriage ...

Archaeologists excavate the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Eridu, near Basra in southern Iraq, in 2022. Buried in the Mesopotamian desert, undisturbed for over two millennia lay a hidden key ...