When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

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

The Royal Tomb of Nimrud were first discovered in April of 1989 by an expedition of the Iraqi Department of Antiquities and Heritage. The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient city ...

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2700 years ago. But after his death, it ...

Introduction Europeans have tried to steal the history of Black Egypt to make it white . The controversial figure they use in this plot is Pharaoh Nana Ramse , whom they succeeded in painting as white ...

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Visitors to the lobby of the Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan are often surprised to find a series of pictorial stained-glass panels. Added in the 1960s, they were meant to link the ...

Archaeologists recently discovered an old military site that might support a biblical story about angels protecting Jerusalem. Based on the story from about 2,700 years ago, God sent an angel to fight ...

In ancient Athens they celebrated the Spring Equinox as a resurrection after death. Painting of Aphrodite and Adonis by Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) 1488/90-1576. Exhibited at the G. Paul Getty Museum in ...