Discover UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology, Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology, UCL Art Museum and UCL Pathology Museum, other UCL collections and an exciting exhibitions and events ...

As much as John misses his past homeland in the nation of of Iran, and currently anguishes over the future of his spiritual ...

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My dear friend Frances Coppola and I were walking home last week and discussing empires – as girls do – when she reminded me ...

How often do the men in your life think about the Roman Empire? Maybe more than you think ... theaters and stadiums, works of art, and literature. This isn't some lost city or vanished people.

While contemplating the horror of two young and soon-to-be-engaged Israeli Embassy employees who were gunned down by a man shouting "free Palestine" and "I did it for Gaza," outside the ...

TEHRAN – The Persian translation of the book “Persians: The Age of the Great Kings” written by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones has been ...

The Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires has published an annotated text corpus of some 6,000 Babylonian texts from the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. The texts have been ...

Spanning millennia, from the Achaemenid Empire to modern times ... Persian Jews trace their origins to the Babylonian Exile, with many choosing to remain in Persia even after they had the ...

The Chinese and Mayans recorded eclipses. But it was in Babylonia—a Mesopotamian empire—that astronomers found real predictive power. Babylonian scholars documented lunar eclipses on clay tablets ...