Marco Polo (1254--1324) is likely the most famous merchant who ever lived. Even small children know his name, thanks to the ...

The irrigation network consists of over 200 primary canals, some of which stretch up to nine kilometers in length and are ...

Among the most striking and memorable exhibits in the British Museum are the Assyrian reliefs depicting the royal hunt. These ...

Bishop was born on June 2o, 1897, at Plymstock, near Plymouth, and attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (RMC). He ...

Long histories of all kinds are at the heart of Selena Wisnom's The Library of Ancient Wisdom, an absorbing exploration of the culture of Bronze Age Mesopotamia ... for dry land -- that he ran around ...

The Imago Mundi, the oldest known world map, offers a rare glimpse into the way ancient Babylonians viewed their world.

Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality. The segmentation ...

Recent archaeological discoveries in Tamil Nadu reveal South India as an early hub of iron smelting, challenging historical ...

Photo of a museum photo by Matthew Stevenson ... the empire once referred to as the “sick man of Europe.” The British and French fought on sea and land at Gallipoli throughout much of 1915 ...

"one hand stretched out toward Mesopotamia and the other towards Egypt," said Humbert. The first excavations date back to the mid-19 th century, with curiosity accelerating under the British ...