A Study Gallery of India and the Ancient World, trains its lens to the duration between the Harappan civilisation — which ...

Mumbai: Trump may have recently lowered duties on Indian spices but centuries before US tariffs, Roman-occupied England taxed ...

Three hundred archaeological objects from 15 institutions trace long-distance trade, shared beliefs and cultural exchange ...

Hebrew University researchers uncovered 8,000-year-old pottery showing floral patterns built on precise geometric ...

WHY IRAQ? WHY NOW? Long overlooked and often misunderstood, Iraq is re-emerging as a destination of profound cultural and historical significance. Known as the heart of ancient Mesopotamia - where ...

The fear of vampires did not begin with Dracula. Several thousand years ago, the ancient Mesopotamians had already recorded ...

Steppes Travel has launched its first Iraq tour – a 12-day journey through Mesopotamia's ancient wonders with an artist and ...

The Assyrian business community also had the first businesswomen and female investors. Generous tax breaks were given to ...

These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him wearing a ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

Way back in Mesopotamia, writing developed. Then Phoenicians made an alphabet. A couple of years later, Gutenberg invented a printing press, then some enlightenment produced libraries to let people ...

The Fertile Crescent is the name given to the arc-shaped area of land that stretched across the Middle East from the northern end of the Gulf in the East to the Nile Valley in the West. It was here ...