The Spartan army clash with the Thebans and general Epaminondas at the Leuctra battlefield signified the end of Sparta's ...

According to Greek mythology, Perseus was the ancestor of the Persians through descendants who went by the names Perses and Achaemenes.

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Archaeologists identified skeletons found in an ancient tomb as the royal lineage of Alexander the Great, including his ...

A 12th-century translation error kicked off a 700-year trade in mummies, depopulating the tombs of Egypt to populate European ...

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government…a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA sequencing reveals how these two populations also intermingled.

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

The young conqueror fell suddenly and fatally ill at an all-night feast. Now, a Stanford historian has found a potential ...

American foreign policy in West Asia is a textbook example of adolescent overreach: short attention spans, cyclical memory, a ...

India was called Bharat and Hindustan in older times. Discover the ancient names of India, their meanings, and how they ...

TEHRAN - A significant cultural heritage preservation initiative has culminated in the digitization and cataloguing of rare ...