The Assyrian business community also had the first businesswomen and female investors. Generous tax breaks were given to ...

Because of shifting storms and sweltering summers, Iran’s capital faces a future “Day Zero” when the taps run dry.

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

More than three millennia ago, an ancient map was carved into clay — and it matches perfectly with the Mesopotamian city of Nippur.

For over 3,000 years, civilizations that never met and never shared a language somehow imagined the same terrifying place: a realm of judgment, suffering, and cosmic consequence. From Mesopotamia’s ...

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 ...

The first printed Bible to include a map of the Holy Land appeared roughly 500 years ago, yet its vision of where sacred ...

The water crisis in Tehran reflects not only this summer’s extreme heat but also several consecutive years of reduced ...

I have particularly agonised about the vacuum in the Nigerian foreign policy space, our distressing non-committal disposition ...

Taş Tepeler, which means “Stone Hills,” refers to a group of Neolithic archaeological sites around Şanlıurfa that has become ...

The world's first city was built long before the Harappans, and its ruins still stand in a quiet desert far from the usual ...