A groundbreaking archaeological discovery has unearthed a 3,200-year-old military fort deep within Egypt's Beheira ...

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks during a presidential debate with Democratic ...

These are the ancient names of countries before modernity. Many countries have undergone name changes over time, often for a ...

The Persian king embodied the values of justice, military heroics, and honor, ideals valorized historically and transculturally, yet the influence of the pre-Islamic Persian past and Persian forms of ...

Conservationists at Persepolis, Iran's most iconic ancient site, are waging a delicate battle against an unlikely adversary: ...

The Nanjing Museum exhibition concluded with a small chapter dedicated to Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), the king of ...

Unicorns appear in the Bible, on Renaissance paintings, in children's fairy tales, on t-shirts, and phone cases. Find out how ...

Bartle Bull’s “Land Between the Rivers” is a sweeping and superbly written epic, from Gilgamesh fortifying Uruk, the “ur-city ...

The Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) is one of the most famous last stands in history. However, the Spartans did not march to ...

For his revenge in Greece, the Achaemenid king mobilised men from all over the empire. Not only did the Persians themselves ...

The Ancient Kingdom of Colchis: A Legendary Land of Plenty, Conflict, and the Golden Fleece Anyone familiar with Greek legends has heard of the Colchis Kingdom. It was to here that the band of heroes ...