Map prepared by geologist and professor AR ... “Such a system is not found in Mesopotamia or Egypt,” he added. “It is unparalleled.” Meanwhile, in rain-drenched Rakhigarhi, a mini-tragedy ...

BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of ...

Map prepared by geologist and professor AR Chaudhri showing ... “Such a system is not found in Mesopotamia or Egypt,” he added. “It is unparalleled.” Meanwhile, in rain-drenched Rakhigarhi, a ...

Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

The Bronze Age was a period of intensive contacts in the Levant, Egypt, Mesopotamia and southern Europe. It rapidly developed ...

A solar eclipse in the year 2471 BC may have influenced architectural change in Egypt, challenging Pharaonic traditions.

Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, they created a culture that influenced both civilizations. The first ...

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a 1,7200-year-old artifact found in a city where Jesus spent most of his life.

The Indus word for ivory used across ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Persia, and the widespread Indus word for the toothbrush tree “miswak” was “pilu”. This was derived from the proto-Dravidian word ...

Ahmad Hasaballah / Getty Images Ancient Egypt was primarily ruled by men, with only a handful of women successfully coming to power. One of them was Hatshepsut, the sixth pharaoh of the 18th ...

Travel back in time thousands of year to the banks of the Nile, where you can learn all about the amazing people and places of Ancient Egypt. What remains of Ancient Egypt? How do we know so much ...