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The Seleucid Empire was a major Hellenistic state, founded by Seleucus I Nicator after the death of Alexander the Great in 312 BC. It encompassed a vast territory stretching from Aegean Sea to the ...

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Archaeologists have discovered the ‘world’s oldest calendar’, dating back 12,000 years. Göbekli Tepe is a Neolithic ...

On the sidelines of the 78th Cannes International Film Festival, the Iraqi Film Fund announced that the Iraq Pavilion ...

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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 ...