Discover the Imago Mundi, the 2,600-year-old Babylonian world map from Sippar, Iraq. Learn how it blends geography, myth & ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

In a recent article, a computer engineer presents the unconventional argument that the true location of the biblical Garden ...

The name of the third river is Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates ... a late 1290s European world map features such a location. In ancient times, there was a belief ...

I speak of our regional DNA heritage: the ancient Egyptians, who revered the sun, the Nile and sacred animals; the Sumerians, Hittites, Babylonians and Assyrians, who honoured the winds ...

Finish your trip in the ancient city of Mardin, an atmospheric destination that begs you to wander its alleys. Don’t miss the Assyrian monasteries or Dara (Mesopotamian ruins) outside town.

Cyprus has been controlled by a succession of civilizations and empires, including the Mycenaeans, Phoenicians, Assyrians, Egyptians ... which were highly prized in the ancient world and contributed ...

Professor Kulakoglu explains that many of the words, although Assyrian in origin -- a Semitic language considered an ancestor ...