Located at Tel Shiqmona in coastal Israel, the facility turned sea snails into purple dye at an industrial scale ...

It was at the start of World War I that Britain first occupied Mesopotamia, then part of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans ... The remainder included Jews, Assyrians and other minorities.

Here are 10. Baklava predates the countries of both Turkey and Greece, with the earliest known traces of Baklava back in 800 B.C., during the Assyrian Empire. Today, that honey-sweet phyllo treat ...

The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved the capital to Dur-Sharukin (modern Khorshabad) in 717 B.C. The city is located 4 miles south-west of ...

Ancient Syriac manuscript from the private collection of Raad Abdul-Ahed from Dohuk, northern Iraq, as photographed in 2015. (AP/Bram Janssen) For nearly 2,000 years, Near East Christian communities ...

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This does not diminish the importance of the discovered fortification but rather highlights its role as a logistical hub and surveillance post at a key frontier of the Empire. The historical ...

But with blockchain technology, the country is taking a different approach. Recently, the team behind Neo announced that they will be working with China’s Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN ...

Debt of honour The gripping account of the Anzac who saved the Assyrians from genocide. This is a book that tells the story of lieutenant general Stanley Savige who fought at Gallipoli ...

A team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge has detected the chemical fingerprints of possible signs of life on a planet outside the solar system. Using data from the James Webb Space ...

With season one in the books for Daredevil: Born Again, the season finale "Straight to Hell" follows the direct aftermath of "Isle of Joy" that saw Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) take a bullet for his ...