There's always been a deep-seated rejection of monarchy in Greece, favoring accountable, accessible leaders over distant, ...

Mesopotamia, located in the fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was one of the cradles of civilization around 6000 years ago and the birthplace of the first writing system. Each ...

The Sumerians lived in Mesopotamia from about 4500 to 1750 B.C.E., and developed a number of technologies that changed the ...

This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

The only woman ever to have ruled the mighty Assyrian Empire, Semiramis titillated writers and painters from the Roman period to the 19th century. Queen Semiramis surveys the building of Babylon ...

An earthquake in Croatia led to a chain of events that helped archaeologists recently discover an ancient Roman theater, officials say. Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and Media announced the find ...

the flagship of one of the most important cargo fleets of the Spanish Monarchy. The study, published in the journal Antiquity, could definitively identify one of the most sought-after shipwrecks in ...

“The findings provide valuable insights into the utilization of Uruk's waterways, the evolution of its floodplain, and the broader processes that shaped early urbanization in Mesopotamia,” according ...

The ancient city—in what is today central Türkiye ... from close to the shores of the Black Sea to the rivers of Mesopotamia and the waters of the Mediterranean. They built sophisticated ...

Many ancient and modern pagan traditions, far from glorifying domination, emphasize reverence for nature, communal rituals, humility and the interdependence of all life. To equate all paganism ...

One of the big contentions of popular historian William Dalrymple’s latest book “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World,” which came out in the United States a few weeks ...