The B-list novels of Mary Shelley; I’m in the early stages of drafting a new book about Mary Shelley, so I have to read ...

For 5,000 years, there has been dancing, processions, rituals and feasts. What have we celebrated, from Africa to Asia, ...

A new study reveals that the deadliest weapon of the Bronze Age originated in the Near East around 1600 BCE before spreading ...

With elongated heads and haunting eyes, these ancient reptile forms remain one of Mesopotamia’s most baffling mysteries. What did they really represent?

From desert carvings to underwater ruins, these ancient structures are so advanced that experts still can’t agree on what ...

Around the globe and for thousands of years, corpses have been treated with caution—lest they come back as vampiric monsters.

Once the heart of Sumerian civilization, the Great Ziggurat of Ur rose above the Mesopotamian plains 4,000 years ago. Built to honor the moon god Nanna, this stepped temple stood as both a place of ...

Within this sacred landscape lies the Assyrian village of Hah, whose name means "place of rest" in Assyrian. Located in the ...

For this reason, Cyrus became (and remains) a legendary figure in Jewish history, though he was not Jewish himself. He was more likely a devotee of Zoroastrianism, which was fervently embraced by his ...

The robbers employed a portable electric ladder to break into a second-floor wing of the Paris museum that holds the French ...

Historical records from Sumerian and Assyrian civilisations document copper exports from Oman to Mesopotamia, while numerous ...

Assyrian cuneiform inscription, estimated to be 2,700 years old, offers rare evidence of official correspondence between the ...