Babylon It was the name of an ancient city of Mesopotamia of the region dominated by it. He flourished on the banks of the ...

Located in northern Mesopotamia, the enigmatic Mitanni Kingdom influenced the course of ancient Near Eastern history during ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum King Tut galleries prepares for their grand opening, with the arrival of his ceremonial chair.

The Mycenaean civilization was the first advanced culture of mainland Greece, shaping the foundations of Greek identity, myth ...

Can King Ninus of Assyria from Greek mythology be identified as a historical figure? This article examines the evidence.

In his dialogues, Plato mentions an enigmatic figure who stands out both for her wisdom and her gender: a woman named Diotima of Mantinea. She was a priestess who instructed none other than Socrates ...

Places with incredible-sounding names such as Babylon, Mesopotamia, the Fertile Crescent and Assyria formed a glorious part of his telling of these sagas as did the deeds of larger-than-life ...

The Assyrians will go to Egypt, and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. In that day Israel will join a three-party alliance with Egypt and Assyria ...

A number of major powers in the region — such as the Mycenaeans (who were based in Greece and the Aegean islands) and the Hittites (who were based in Turkey) — collapsed, and a group known as ...

Each year on April 24th, the Armenians, Syriac-Assyrians, and Chaldeans commemorate the Ottoman Empire's genocide of Christians in its lands during World War I. The genocide led to the displacement ...

Editor’s note: Today marks the 110th commemoration of the 1915 Genocide, where over two million Armenians, Assyrians, Pontic Greeks and other indigenous peoples of the Ottoman Empire were ...