Pazuzu was one of many ancient Mesopotamian supernatural beings that blurred the line between god and monster. Historian Dr ...

The Kings blew a 4-0 lead, but survived when Phillip Danault scored with 41.1 seconds left for a Game 1 victory. Los Angeles jumped out to the four-goal lead, but Edmonton's Leon Draisaitl got a ...

Donald Trump is eager to fill out his autocratic profile with a display of military might in the form of a military parade. Anti-Trump activists are planning mass protests across the United States ...

Bedbugs were the first true urban pest as humans moved out of caves and started forming cities, new research suggests. A team ...

Taxation has shaped civilisation from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Australia. Understanding its long history sheds light on ...

The search for the waters of eternal life has fascinated figures from Gilgamesh to the conquistadors to Hollywood studio ...

Idealism, a hunger for power and a wish to prosper have driven some of the earliest efforts to build a world order.

Ancient civilizations often linked powerful animals like lions to cosmic events, aligning their appearances with eclipses, solstices, or even comets. From Mesopotamia to Egypt, the lion was seen not ...

Only by building could a king honour his gods and obtain immortality. To the Sumerian kings, who stamped their names in the bricks of their buildings so they would live in the memory of man ...

Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian empire. Researchers from the University of Heidelberg have made a spectacular ...

The Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum documents the history and legacy of the ancient Parsi community - a small ethnic group ...