Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

Before satellites and global positioning systems, ancient civilizations charted their known universe with remarkable ...

Queen Semiramis surveys the building of Babylon, of which she is ... to piece together her biography. In the ancient city of Nimrud (in modern-day Iraq), two statues dedicated to Nabu, the ...

A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a ...

Barzanji, ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to Jordan, has hosted a dinner in honor of HE Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, founder ...

In 1845, an Englishman named Austen Henry Layard set out from Constantinople in search of Nineveh, the last capital of the Assyrian Empire. He was 28 years old, held no formal training in ...

In the ruins of the ancient ... Iraq, was the Assyrian empire’s urban center, and archaeologists have been researching the site for centuries. In the late 1800s, British researchers explored the ...

Uruk, Ur, Meggido, Babylon ... late third millennium B.C., another ancient Mesopotamian city rose in dominance. Ur (present-day Tell el-Muqayyar in Iraq), south of Uruk where the Tigris and ...

The archaeological sites of Old Cairo are being transformed and upgraded as part of plans to turn the district into a more ...

An ancient city from the Byzantine era, once thought lost to time, has been rediscovered in southern Jordan. Known as Tharais ...

I embarked on a life-changing journey to one of the most misunderstood countries in the world: Iraq. For nearly two weeks, my friend Tasos and I, alongside Bil Weekend, explored Iraq’s rich history, ...

The crux of the case is something bigger, something moral and deeply personal, about one family’s connection to a home and ...