A major exhibition at the Louvre in Paris has been shedding light on the Hittites, a formidable foe of the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom, writes David Tresilian Centred in southern Anatolia and the ...

The Hittites were one of the major powers of the ancient Near East, yet many of their achievements remain less widely known.

Mesopotamia’s first cities survived drought, war, and empire, until the Gutians swept down from the mountains and plunged the ...

Since the birth of humanity people have fought each other. Over time the ancient weapons have been replaced by more ...

A remarkably preserved town that has been underwater for a whopping 2,400 years has reappeared in a tourist holiday hotspot - ...

Idleb, (SANA) Orum al-Joz est l’un des villages les plus anciens de Jabal al-Zawiya )mont al-Zawiya(, dans le gouvernorat ...

Events in the Gulf war continue to attract global attention, despite the ongoing preoccupation here in Cyprus with our own ...

The main topic around the world last week was the halt of hostilities between the USA and Iran for a period of ...

Lorsqu’il fouilla le sol de Byblos, en 1860 et 1861, Ernest Renan avait-il conscience de découvrir « la ville la plus vieille ...

The most impressive part of Total War: Pharaoh isn't the beautifully-detailed map of the Nile Valley, the exciting Late Bronze Age setting, or the striking interface that looks like it was copied ...