A team of archaeologists may have discovered evidence of the biblical Battle of Megiddo, where Josiah, the king of Judah, was killed by Egyptian forces in 609 B.C.

Born about 600 BCE in what is now southwestern Iran, Cyrus “the Great” is considered the founder of the Persian Achaemenid empire. He is remembered as “the Great” to distinguish him from his ...

Near the start of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, there was a massive but largely forgotten battle between the Greeks and the Babylonians. Credit: wikimedia commons / Bazil Amin CC BY 4.0 About 2600 years ...

A stunning and informative graphic from the National Post. Why are we doing this? How can we possibly afford it? Over to you, Bill Kauffman. This is a good place to commend to you my TAC colleague ...

The Knights of Babylon commanded Carnival attention with a glittering parade followed by a masked ball in the New Orleans Marriott. “Just So Stories” by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) inspired ...

With that idea in mind, as a historian of science, my best answer to the question of what the first scientists discovered is Babylonian astronomy. The Babylonians lived from about 2,500 to 4,000 ...

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This map depicts the kingdoms of the Successors c ... The sudden death of Alexander the Great in Babylon left his empire without a clear successor. His generals, the Diadochi, were not prepared for ...

Languages: English and Chinese. You can get in touch with John by emailing [email protected] A map by Newsweek has outlined the extent of the decline of American shipbuilding, which President ...

There are few events in Irish history as evocative or politically potent as the Great Famine. The blight that destroyed potato crops in the late 1840s reduced the island’s population by almost ...