History | January 2022. At the Iraqi Site of Assur, Ancient History Stands at Risk of Destruction. In its time, the Assyrian capital faced waves of invasions and abandonment.

A Mesopotamian myth from nearly 4,000 years ago tells of a man who builds a boat to save the world from a divine flood, long ...

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

In the early 20th century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel and ...

The Assyrian Empire shaped the ancient world for centuries. At its height, it stretched from the Persian Gulf to Egypt, ...

The Babylonian Exile, a traumatic and critical period in Jewish history, saw thousands of Jews deported to Babylon following the conquest of Judah by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II.During their ...

Sumeria stands as one of the most significant and foundational civilizations in human history. Located in the fertile region of Mesopotamia, this ancient civilization is widely regarded as the ...

While you may most readily associate southern Europe with winemaking, you need to look further afield when it comes to the ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

When World War II broke out in 1939, British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill requested that the Iranian government revert ...

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