Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

From the author of Clytemnestra comes another immersive journey into ancient history, as Casati reimagines the rise to power of the Assyrian empire's only female ruler, Semiramis. I was truly ...

Whether due to natural disasters or thanks to the destructive tendencies of mankind, these iconic cultural touchstones no longer exist.

The Rassam Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder containing cuneiform inscriptions that describe the reign and military campaigns of Ashurbanipal, king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. It was discovered in ...

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 ...

(MENAFN) The Empire of Mali, one of the wealthiest and most influential in African history, is best known for its famous ruler, Mansa Musa, often regarded as the richest person in history.

Patriarch Shimun XXI, on his 1925 visit to London, England. (The Times) Mar Shimun XXI, the Patriarch of the Nestorian or Assyrian Christians, who is only 16 years of age, arrived in England yesterday ...