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

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 ...

Then he overthrew his king. Using anti-incumbency to his benefit ... Most records attribute the fall to in-fighting between ...

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 ...

Due to deliberate misrepresentation of facts and false information, White people had deceived many ignorant and learned people as well in the world that they had originated every good thing that ...

Archaeologists working in the ancient city of Nineveh—now Mosul, Iraq—have unearthed a gigantic statue depicting King ...

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 ...

The discovery is particularly significant because religious relief images from the Assyrian Empire rarely contained depictions of major deities ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...