Mesopotamia, with its dense network of ancient cities in the fertile plains along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers near the ...

The Iranians refused to pay up, of course, so the victims have tried to seize Iranian assets in America, including ancient Persian artifacts loaned to the Field Museum and the University of ...

Four years later, many of the artifacts—none of which ... b.c. to a.d. 200 among Hellenistic, Persian, Indian, Chinese and nomadic cultures along the ancient Silk Road—trading routes ...