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

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 considered the first empire in history, centered in ...

The great historian Arnold Toynbee concluded this in his 12-volume magnum opus A Study of History ... and eventual ...

Thanks to new excavations and advanced technology, researchers now believe this city predates the Roman Empire by centuries ... the site not just on the map of ancient Macedonia, but at the ...

Watling Street’s legacy extends far beyond the Roman era. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Anglo-Saxons renamed parts of it, such as Wroxeter, which evolved into “Watling.” The road ...

Using tree-ring data from ancient oaks, the team reconstructed ... Climate has been implicated in everything from the collapse of the Akkadian Empire to the turmoil of the French Revolution.

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King ...

Sifting through the tan dirt of northern Iraq, archaeologists looked at the remnants of an ancient empire’s capital city.

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...

This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.