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The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient city of Kalkhu (modern city of Nimrud). The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved ...

Exterior of the nameless tomb at Luxor. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt In the 1970s, a tomb was discovered in the Al-Asasif necropolis on the west bank of Luxor, Egypt, which ...

Satellites are crowding orbital space, particularly Low Earth Orbit, exacerbating the risk of orbital debris. In this Commentary, Mia Bennett recommends measures across the satellite life cycle to ...

“They were able to fight the Egyptians, and the Babylonians and Assyrians had to treat them as equals,” said Andreas Schachner of the German Archaeological Institute, which has been carrying ...

When the Northern Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Assyrians and taken into exile around 722 B.C., Coleman said, the Southern Kingdom of Judah was offered a vivid reminder of what the Lord ...

May 26, 2025 — Flowers grow stems, leaves and petals in a perfect pattern again and again. A new study shows that even in this precise, patterned formation in plants, gene activity inside ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The crust (together with the upper layer of the mantle) is made up of different pieces, called tectonic plates ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Mountains are areas of land that are much higher than the land surrounding them. They are higher and usually steeper ...

May 22, 2025 — New research examining 11,700 years of bowhead whale persistence throughout the Arctic projects that sea ice loss due to climate change will cause their habitat to severely ...

By at least 2700 BC, the Sumerians lived alongside Akkadians, whose king Sargon established the first lasting Mesopotamian empire, and whose Semitic language evolved into the dialects of the ...