The stories of history’s greatest empires reveal a recurring pattern: conquest without restraint, expansion without limits and an inevitable fall ...

Yemen is threatening to fracture even further, exposing a growing rift between Middle East powers Saudi Arabia and the United ...

The UNESCO - listed city of Chersonesus, located on the southwestern part of the Crimean peninsula was an ancient Greek ...

Excavations at the ancient Anatolian city of Kanesh in Turkey have revealed a district where merchants from the distant Mesopotamian city of Assur in Iraq lived and worked. Some 23,000 cuneiform ...

A nearly-abandoned salvage dig ahead of a road building project in northern Israel’s Jezreel Valley yielded the discovery of an opulent tomb dating back some 2,700 years, including a trove of jewelry, ...

This tiny fragment belied a find of Biblical proportions. Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed a 2,700-year-old Assyrian inscription in clay that could shine a light on key events detailed in ...

The prophet’s lesson is also ours: We must recover compassion for neighbor and enemy alike, or our words will be hollow. Political discourse today is increasingly marked more by bitter conflict than ...

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, the archaeologists discovered ...

A colossal lamassu, a massive winged bull with a human head, has been unearthed in northern Iraq, marking the discovery of the largest of its kind ever found. Standing approximately six meters (20 ...

Beneath layers of earth in the ancient Assyrian capital of Nineveh, a team of archaeologists from Heidelberg University has uncovered one of the most significant finds in decades in the region. The ...

In a groundbreaking archaeological discovery, a team from Heidelberg University unearthed a massive relief beneath the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, Iraq. The ...

A near-total solar eclipse occurred on June 15, 763 BCE, over northern Assyria. The eclipse was recorded in Nineveh, the Assyrian capital, within the Eponym Canon, a chronicle inscribed on clay ...