Christians in northeast Syria this month will mark the 10th anniversary of an attack by the Islamic State group on more than 30 villages.

The domestication of wheat and barley in the Fertile Crescent marked a pivotal turning point in human history. This region, encompassing parts of mod ...

Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

Mankind has sought civilization since the earliest days of recorded history. However, some kingdoms were the first to start ...

Learn how environmental changes have humbled many of history’s most successful and dominant cultures.

Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj is special because of the good alignment of stars which is said to have occurred after 144 years.

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

THE great and inventive people who settled 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates (now part of Iraq), founded one of the world’s first major civilizations.

ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – Iraq has reported an increase in the Euphrates River's water levels following a landmark agreement with Turkey to release 500 cubic meters of water per second. This development, ...

crossing the Euphrates River. Although 164 passed by largely without event – a year of preparations – 165 saw the renewal of engagements, beginning with the Roman invasion of Mesopotamia.

A tragedy occurred at the Eleme junction intercession of the Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway on Monday as a truck lost control and crushed a 40-year-old woman to death. It was gathered that the truck ...

MILWAUKEE --Come Sunday it will be exactly one year since the Milwaukee Bucks hired Doc Rivers to be the organization's 18th head coach. The past 12 months, split over two seasons, have generally ...