Louisa McKenzie, an art historian, journalist and associate fellow at the Warburg Institute in London, via email. The ancient ...

In The Golden Road, William Dalrymple proposes that India had a role in shaping and reshaping the ancient and medieval world.

Louisa McKenzie, an art historian, journalist and associate fellow at the Warburg Institute in London, via email. The ancient ...

The Penn Museum and Iraqi archaeologists discovered remarkably preserved shrines at a temple that was destroyed by fire ...

A decade after jihadists ransacked Iraq's famed Nimrud site, archaeologists have been painstakingly putting together its ...

The ancient city of Babylon was located in what's now Iraq, roughly 55 miles (88.5 kilometers) south of Baghdad."Like many ancient New Year's festivals, (Akitu) lauded creation and fertility on ...

Tashkent, a city where ancient mosques and madrassas meet modern innovation, is a living tribute to the enduring cultural and ...

Archaeologists have uncovered remarkable findings in the ancient Greek city of Ptolemais (Greek: Πτολεμαΐς), located along Libya’s northeastern coast. The discoveries include a sophisticated water ...

An ancient Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum game board. Credit: wneuheisel / CC BY 2.0 Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Hadrianopolis in Turkey’s Karabük Province have unearthed two Roman bone ...

The round city. By 814, Baghdad was the world's largest city with ... The scholars worked together to translate ancient Roman and Greek texts on subjects like algebra, medicine, astronomy.