Magdalena Wywrot’s moody series “Pestka” captures eleven years in the life that she made with her only child, Barbara.

With new high-speed trains complementing old school diesels, Turkey’s once undervalued rail system is enjoying a ...

Even the great art historian Adolfo Venturi had to let down his countrymen when he admitted that the form was “regarded as ...

The Unesco-listed ghost ruins of Ani lie nearby ... If terms like “Fertile Crescent” and “Upper Mesopotamia” aren’t enough to entice you to Turkey’s fabulous Syrian borderlands ...

THE great and inventive people who settled 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates (now part of Iraq), founded one of the world’s first major civilizations.

Qatar’s Doha Film Institute has revealed the 47 projects across all formats selected for its fall 2024 grants round. Palestinian director Razan Madhoon’s Gaza-set drama The Good Spirit; ...

This is hardly the first time the ghost island of the Kumani Bank has appeared and disappeared. We like to think of land as a fairly static thing, considering that's where we spend the majority of ...

Pop performer Tate McRae and country star Josh Ross are leading contenders at the 2025 Juno Awards. The Calgary -raised McRae and Burlington, Ont.-native Ross each have five nominations, including in ...

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

Since then, various theories have been put forward, suggesting the script might represent a Dravidian language, early Brahmi, an early Indo-Aryan language, or even Sumerian. However, none of these ...

The Alexander Mosaic in the Archaeological Museum of Naples. Credit: ho visto nina volare / Wikimedia Commons The Alexander Mosaic, housed in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN), is ...