The search for the waters of eternal life has fascinated figures from Gilgamesh to the conquistadors to Hollywood studio chiefs. It’s been mostly — but perhaps not entirely — wishful thinking.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani on Saturday unveiled the Regional Initiative to Protect the Tigris and ...

Across the Levant in the 15th century B.C., cities were rising up against freshly-installed pharaoh Thutmose III. It would be ...

The prize is announced as Belgian’s Valéry Carnoy’s ‘Wild Foxes,’ takes the SACD Prize, his second award at Directors’ ...

Toibin has undertaken extensive research into Mann’s life and works while at the same time imaginatively recreating his ...

For the Greeks, the idea was a fluid one—a literal place and a civic ideal that allowed for democracy to flourish.

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Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Social media and the spreading of information is far different today than it was during ancient times. Back when the world ...

Babylon It was the name of an ancient city of Mesopotamia of the region dominated by it. He flourished on the banks of the ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...