Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only ...

Originally, it was built to host the royal collection of the Spanish Monarchy. Inside ... features pieces that range from early Mesopotamia and Ancient Greece and the famous “Venus de Milo ...

Researchers have discovered an extensive and remarkably well-preserved system of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu ...

Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy.

University College London, the University of Central Lancashire, Ege University, and other institutions have discovered that ...

the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the Observer’s Dalya Alberge. The Girsu Project researchers found more than 200 tablets and some 50 cylinder seal impressions of ...

Stakeholders in India, who too would like to see the restoration of Nepal’s monarchy would do well to consider that further protests will only increase instability in the neighbouring country ...