The ancient world was replete with a myriad of fascinating civilizations, many of which are no longer remembered.

In 73AD, the Han government sent a diplomatic mission of 36 people led by Ban Chao to Xiyu and his assistant Gan Ying arrived at Daqin (ancient Rome), on the Persian Gulf (the present Arabian Gulf ...

Mesopotamia, with its dense network of ancient cities in the fertile plains along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers near the Persian Gulf, is often regarded as the birthplace of urban civilization.

Perhaps these were gifts for a royal wedding in the Persian Gulf—a bride's treasure of ... as never before and once again trading with its ancient partners in the Middle East.

"Mesopotamia" is an ancient Greek word that can be translated to "the land between two rivers." Those rivers were the Tigris ...

Japan’s diplomatic documents worked out three decades ago during the Persian Gulf crisis, triggered by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in the year after the Cold War ended, were recently ...