JK Rowling says she ‘couldn’t be happier’ about Harry Potter casting announcement ...

David Muir has the story of the nuns with a sister act that’s hard to beat after one of them dropped a freestyle beat while the other sang and danced, and was later joined by a deacon on the show.

The 585 B.C. Eclipse of Peace turned fear into ceasefire, as a solar eclipse halted war and reshaped ancient views of the ...

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Ancient Palestine was occupied by several different nations throughout its history. What do we know about them?

Not long before the presidential election, I wrote a column in these pages characterizing Joe Biden as a “temporary king” in ...

Shi’s Star Catalog has been notoriously difficult to date, but new research suggests astronomers drafted it centuries before its Western counterpart.

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are restoring the legend of a forgotten superpower. A procession of gods ...

Three ancient artifacts from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art were officially returned to Iraq on Monday ...

In an archaeological first, German researchers have found a depiction of major Assyrian deities carved onto a relief.

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Babylon It was the name of an ancient city of Mesopotamia of the region dominated by it. He flourished on the banks of the ...