The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were described as a lush paradise in ancient texts. They were said to be one of the Seven ...

Sitting near the Tigris River and the Persian Gulf in southern Iran, the port city was a major trade hub until shifting ...

Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first ...

Ziggurats were mudbrick temples designed to bridge heaven and earth, anchoring religion, power, and architecture in the ancient Near East for thousands of years.

The papyrus, known as Anastasi I, or “The Satirical Letter,” is believed by most to take the form of a somewhat mocking ...

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

Alexander the Great conquered the region around 329 B.C.E., leaving behind Greek and Macedonian settlers who intermarried ...

Researchers using a synchrotron at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have been able to recover pieces of the ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Sabah is a mainstream, high-circulation newspaper. Columns published in its pages often resonate far beyond opinion sections, ...

Yatir is a place for people who are looking for something a little out of the ordinary, or to live their lives at a slower – but no less exciting – pace. Confirming Cervantes’s Leonese origins would ...