The history of Iranian-Israeli relations shows how ancient alliances can turn into modern conflicts, but maybe now is the ...

Why was the country of Iran formerly called Persia? What has this got to do with the conquests of ancient Middle Eastern ...

Hessom Razavi’s family fled to Australia from Iran in the 1980s to escape persecution. As he watches events unfold, he speaks to relatives still there and reflects on Iran’s fate.

Real-world-inspired treasures in games add depth and believability, evoking a sense of adventure. Games like Skyrim and Call ...

Archaeology & History Decoding Babylon: 4 Discoveries That Transformed Our View of the Ancient Empire. Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to ...

An earlier version of this critic’s notebook misidentified the starting empire in a play-through of Civilization VII. It was Persian, not Babylonian (which is not in the game).

In the 6th century BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of Nebuchadnezzar II, and the Lydian Kingdom of Croesus.These ...

Asia minor map during Greco-Roman period. Credit: caliniuc / wikimedia commons CC BY-SA 4.0. One of the most significant groups in what is now Turkey were the Phrygians. They had been the most ...

However, supporters of Israel say the area is the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people, who were exiled following an invasion by the Babylonian Empire more than 2,500 years ago and the ...

The Babylonian Map of the World. | Fine Art/GettyImages. The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches.

Ancient Babylonian Tablet May Reveal the Location of Noah’s Ark The tablet's link to the Biblical vessel was explored in a recent YouTube video by Dr Irving Finkel. Imago Mundi in 2024.