Babylon near Hillah in Iraq is an archaeological cityscape where ancient foundations and modern reconstructions together ...

Founded as a settlement in ancient Mesopotamia and later capital of the Neo-Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar II, it is one of the most recognisable names in world history and a World Heritage ...

A portable scanner allowed scientists to decipher messages no human has seen in four millennia.

The Rebirth of a Sunken Wonder Just off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, a submerged site well-known for decades is unveiling ...

A reader’s guide to fiction, children’s literature, translation and scholarship from the prize's first 20 years ...

Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has updated its travel risk information for Israel and Palestine, Iraq, and Lebanon, ...

The sights and sounds of the Jurassic era are long gone, and we will never know for sure what that ancient world looked and sounded like. Fossils can offer clues, and reconstructions can give us a ...

Cosmic Origin @kongensan XtwitterAugust 27, 1975, Haile Selassie I, the last Emperor of the Ethiopian Empire, passed away. It ...

The long-running drama reaches Hitler’s rise to power in its final season as its creators reflect on the unsettling parallels between Weimar Germany and the present day It’s the global hit TV series ...

Have you ever wondered what your Melbourne suburb looked like before all the streets and houses? For Melbourne's expanding outer suburbs, we have photos, satellite images and living memories. But what ...

New satellite imagery and video analysis show the deadly Nepal floods began when part of a glacier near the Chinese border collapsed, triggering a debris flow that raced downstream at up to 150 km/h ...

Northwest Indiana. He previously worked for the Northern Virginia Daily and Newsday. He has won multiple awards in Indiana ...