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 ...

Even after it was found that one of the most effective purple dyes used in ancient history was taken from a gland in a ...

Did you know that astrology has been practised for thousands of years? Some of the earliest recorded uses come from ancient Mesopotamian and Babylonian civilisations, dating back as far as 5,000 years ...

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

Was the Book of Daniel really written in the sixth century BC or was it a much later forgery from the Hellenistic Era?

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

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

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

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

(History's first superpower sprang from ancient Iran.) Nearly 50 years later, in 540 B.C., Babylon and the Neo-Babylonian regime fell to the Persian conqueror Cyrus the Great, who allowed the ...

Several of these ancient scratch pads have been found at Kish and nearby Babylon, both of which were major areas of early mathematics education. While this particular tablet is blank on the back ...