Gender-ambiguous people in ancient Mesopotamia were powerful and important members of society more than four millennia ago.

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For most of our lives, Iraq had been reduced to war footage and headlines. Traveling across Kurdistan revealed a completely ...

The existential question of which countries are the oldest has long intrigued historians, and for good reason. However, defining what makes a country "old" is challenging, as it depends on historical ...

The US military has started transferring up to 7,000 Islamic State (IS) detainees from prisons in northeastern Syria to Iraq, as Syria’s new government asserts control over territories long governed ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a ...

Father and son team Brandon and Vincent Rospond relocated their military history bookstore, On Military Matters, to Point ...

An unfolding water crisis in Iraq's rain-starved rivers harms food security, and has sparked a water-sharing plan with ...

This week on Rule Breaker Investing, Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner is joined by Raj Sisodia and Nilima Bhat, ...

Water’s ability to sustain bodies and communities is a theme that resurfaces throughout the Wellcome Collection’s exhibition, ...