Rising from the plains of southern Iraq, the Great Ziggurat of Ur was built around 2050 BCE as a sacred link between heaven ...

Mumbai: Trump may have recently lowered duties on Indian spices but centuries before US tariffs, Roman-occupied England taxed ...

Archaeologists in southern Turkey have uncovered a 3,500-year-old clay tablet that reads less like royal propaganda and more ...

Ruins of the capital city of Dilmun, on the island of Bahrain, are visible alongside a fort dating to the sixteenth century a.d. Dilmun founded its capital around 2000 b.c., when it increasingly ...

Throughout history, there have been numerous cities that have been washed away due to natural disasters or changing landscapes. And although these cities do not exist it anymore, they've nonetheless ...

So, he sank a trial trench into what the locals called Mohenjo Daro, “the Mound of the Dead Men”. Within days he pulled out square steatite seals bearing a horned figure seated in yoga posture and an ...

Around 2112 B.C., the Sumerian king Ur-Namma (r. 2112–2095 B.C.) united the city-states of southern Mesopotamia into a short-lived kingdom known today as the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur III. More than ...

Life is hard. Who was the first person to say these grim words? I was hoping AI would provide the answer but it spectacularly failed.

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

"Map of the ancient Rauh Ruins. These giant ruins flooded, overgrown and split into two by a chasm. To the southwest is the Church of the Bud, overlooking the tower of shadow." Where to Find the Rauh ...

The Spark is inside a temple that has sunk into the water, so you will need to turn back time to access it. Using your Royal Hourglass, search for Flickers, glowing flower-shaped crystals, to power it ...

Mesopotamia, situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is recognized as the earliest cradle of civilization due to ...