The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

Empires rise like wildfires—how do we measure their scars? One way to measure the march of human history would be the timeline of “The Empires.” The Akkadian Empire (circa 2334–2154 BCE), is widely ...

Even though archaeological and scientific tools have discovered much about these ancient civilizations, including facts about ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

The Kurds of Syrian Kurdistan have the most promising democracy outside of Israel. Don't let it be destroyed. Opinion.

These were soldiers stationed in the sun-baked plains of what would become Iraq, yet the image speaks only of camaraderie and respite.

Discovery of a 5,000-year-old noblewoman sheds new light on the Caral civilization, revealing the prominent role of women in ...

In The Other Mohan in Britain’s Indian Ocean Empire, Amrita Shah investigates the voyages of one of Gandhi’s contemporaries: ...

Discover how a brilliant and brutal strategist forged the largest land empire in history. Stream 'Genghis Khan: The Secret ...

Palomino told reporters the find showed that while “it was generally thought that rulers were men, or that they had more ...