In trying to understand the present it is helpful to examine it from the perspective of the past. In the Book of Judges, we find the familiar story of Samson ...

The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved the capital to Dur-Sharukin (modern Khorshabad) in 717 B.C. The city is located 4 miles south-west of ...

Since then, 116 individual dodecahedrons have been found right across the former Roman Empire, from Hungary to ... BC piece of rock crystal at the Assyrian palace of Nimrud in Iraq in 1850 ...

A suspected Ebola exposure at a Manhattan urgent-care facility had two patients rushed to the hospital by emergency workers in hazmat suits Sunday – but the disease was ruled out. The patients ...

venal rulers can today even properly debate – much less deliver – Solidarity, Equality and Sustainability. Where does that leave progressives who do not want to be bamboozled by Ramaphosa and ...

On Friday, Pitino ruled Smith out for Sunday’s game against No. 24 Creighton. But on Sunday, the senior point guard, somehow, helped ninth-ranked St. John’s knock off the Bluejays 79-73 at a ...

The Mauryan Empire (322 BCE - 185 BCE) was the first and one of the most influential empires in the Indian subcontinent.

A national poll asked punters to review 43 English, and then British, rulers since William the Conqueror, quizzing them if they knew them and, perhaps more importantly, if they view them ...

Matt Kuhnemann will miss Tasmania's Sheffield Shield clash against South Australia with injury. The injury is not new, but related to the thumb he broke in the BBL before playing for Australia in ...

Kelly Huitson said the rising number of sick hedgehogs in Alderney had been caused by a high number of parasites Wildlife experts say there is "good news" after the possibility of a mystery ...

The name Nebuchadnezzar II is well-known due to its association with the Biblical exile of the Jewish people and Giuseppe ...