“Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium b.c. from the Mediterranean to the Indus” places the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the center of a vast commercial, religious ...

It was bizarre living in Dublin during my formative years, feeling both at home and out of place in the very country that was ...

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Whether created by ancient Egyptian scribes, medieval monks, or Mayan priests, these 26 remarkable survivors have endured ...

British anthropologist Dr Paul Warner claims to have found the body of Jesus Christ and the Ark of the Covenant in a hidden ...

Not long ago, Iraq was viewed as a kind of hell on Earth. But the country has recovered its stability, and the government is ...

There was Mesopotamia, which was comparatively close ... but just as proud of their religion—almost a new type—true Americans of the Jewish faith . . . an integral part of a race of ...

Cyrus’s religious tolerance ... Babylon fallsCatering to the 19th-century appetite for dramatic historical art, this 1835 mezzotint by English artist John Martin (later colorized) imagines ...

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Sumerian and Babylonian cultures correlated ... This self-destructive, stubborn streak bleeds into the realms of work and art, as is the case with Taurus Daniel Day-Lewis, who was so dedicated ...

The End of the Commons General Store sits in the heart of Mesopotamia, a tiny township that sounds like it should be between ...