Rising from the plains of southern Iraq, the Great Ziggurat of Ur was built around 2050 BCE as a sacred link between heaven ...

Mumbai: Trump may have recently lowered duties on Indian spices but centuries before US tariffs, Roman-occupied England taxed ...

Ruins of the capital city of Dilmun, on the island of Bahrain, are visible alongside a fort dating to the sixteenth century a.d. Dilmun founded its capital around 2000 b.c., when it increasingly ...

Throughout history, there have been numerous cities that have been washed away due to natural disasters or changing landscapes. And although these cities do not exist it anymore, they've nonetheless ...

So, he sank a trial trench into what the locals called Mohenjo Daro, “the Mound of the Dead Men”. Within days he pulled out square steatite seals bearing a horned figure seated in yoga posture and an ...

Life is hard. Who was the first person to say these grim words? I was hoping AI would provide the answer but it spectacularly failed.

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

More than three millennia ago, one of the world’s oldest city maps was carved into clay — and only recently has it become clear that it matches perfectly with the excavated ruins of the ancient city ...

A team of independent researchers is claiming to have found Atlantis. The research centers around stone structures on Spain's Salmedina Island, off Chipiona in the Gulf of Cádiz, west of the Strait of ...

In ancient times, Mesopotamia, meaning ‘land between two rivers’, was a vast region that lay between the Tigris and Euphrates river systems, and it is where civilization emerged over 7,000 years ago.

The sun hangs heavy over central Iraq in late afternoon, painting the ruins of Babylon in heat and light. Dust rises from the ground in soft clouds, carrying a faint scent that seems older than time ...