I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the clay tablets were preserved by the heat. Selena Wisnom's new book reveals more ...

Rather than fostering genuine reconciliation, Turkey’s ‘terror-free’ process marginalizes and humiliates the Kurdish ...

The archbishop's remarks came during a question and answer session following a book launch for Iraq's Christian Heritage: Survival in Mesopotamia ... of Catholic Relief Services projects ...

Deltas represent low-lying socio-environmental geographical regions characterized by the dynamic interaction between rivers, ...

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia ... from top: a relief from Ashurbanipal's ...

Babylon’s rule stretched from the foot of that plateau across Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean ... and an A.D. 100-200 painted stone relief (below) were unknown.