Taken together, the four inscriptions establish at least the bare bones of her story: The queen definitely lived in the Assyrian Empire between the ninth and eighth centuries B.C., was married to ...

Archaeology & History Decoding Babylon: 4 Discoveries That Transformed Our View of the Ancient Empire Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to ...

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire.

In the books, Rand and his companions reunite in the Andoran capital of Caemlyn, while in the Amazon series, that happens in Tar Valon, the island city of the Aes Sedai.

For Americans, there is danger too. Trump’s tenure might herald both a clever strategy to secure the future of the country and another chapter, a 21st-century variant, in the history of that nation’s ...

Shocking map shows all the countries Britain has invaded - only 22 left untouched Britain has reputedly invaded 171 of the 193 countries in the world, Its empire was the biggest in history - but ...

These are not questions Star Wars fiction often asks us to think about, but it’s the way that we, in the real world, examine our own history, art, and culture.

Assyria stands out in history as the fountainhead of empire. It was perhaps the first state to subdue the bulk of its world, extending in every direction until its frontiers consisted almost entirely ...

The Babylonian Map of the World was found in a box related to Rassam’s 1881 excavation at Sippar in present-day Iraq around 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of modern Baghdad.