Celebrating the New Year was a popular custom around the world in ancient times. How was it celebrated in Alexander the Great ...

This is the fifth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some time ...

On the inevitability of cultural exchange between empires, Durant (1935: 264) writes: Through Assyria's conquest of Babylon, her appropriation of the ancient city's culture, and her dissemination of ...

The latest findings cast light on the history of a major civilization that is considered to be one of the world's first ...

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around ... River divides the central circle with Babylon straddling it in the northern section. Other ancient cities and civilizations are also ...

the use of satraps (which divided the empire into manageable administrative units) in a centralised bureaucracy, and the maintenance of infrastructure to facilitate transportation and communication ...

What do we know now about this abandoned ancient enclave? A Buddhist temple at Dandan-Oilik was first excavated by Marc Aurel Stein in 1900. It consists of a central cella nested in a larger ...

However, the ancient wording, dating back to between 230 and 270 — when the predominant religions in Europe were Judaism and paganism — has been virtually illegible until now. Specialists from ...

Over the past ten years or so, investigations of degraded or ‘ancient’ DNA have skyrocketed. By extracting DNA fragments from diverse sources —from human teeth and faeces to soil samples and ...