CHANGSHA -- A team of students in China recently gave suggestions as to what rice might have tasted like in the country two millennia ago, with these suggestions based on their study of an ancient ...

A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

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The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in Greek history, appearing in many of the legends of Greek mythology.

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In 1911, the explorer Gertrude Bell visited the German excavations at Ashur, the founding capital of the Assyrian empire. Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq ...