A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

Phaistos where an imposing palace once stood is, perhaps not as well known as Knossos, but a focal point of the history of ...

Many of our practices and behaviours go back four thousand years. For example, the Danish archaeologists found evidence that ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Greek Orthodox Patriarch John X of Antioch described Pope Francis as a bearer of a lofty Christian mission, noting that his ...

Pope Francis was praised by several regional leaders and churches, including Lebanon's Maronite Church and Iraqi officials, ...