The Erbil Civilization Museum, which houses rare artifacts dating back thousands of years, from the Stone Age to the Sumerian, Assyrian, and Islamic periods, stands as a testament to the historical ...

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) claims Rakhigarhi is the largest discovered metropolis of the Indus Valley ...

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In 2014, the IS terrorist group took control of the Iraqi city of Mosul, systematically destroying its many cultural ...

As we saw in Egypt and Mesopotamia, the leap from village to ... and there seems to be little difference between the homes of the rich and the poor. So what is going on here?

Peter Frankopan, Oxford historian, was first enticed by history in the 1970s, during summer holidays as a child in rural Sweden visiting his maternal grandfather (his paternal line was the ancient ...

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This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

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The UN body has brought several religious and other buildings in the Iraqi city back to life as part of an $115m programme ...

By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be ...

Photo by Khalid al BusaidiLast weekend at the Royal Opera House Muscat, audiences were whisked away into an enchanting world ...