In reality, after the Assyrian captivity from 720 BC and after the Babylonian captivity from 586 BC, there had not been an ...

Waššukanni has never been found and some scholars think that it may be located in northeastern Syria. The people who lived in ...

Celebrating the New Year was a popular custom around the world in ancient times. How was it celebrated in Alexander the Great ...

Archaeologists in northern Israel uncover a luxurious Iron Age cremation burial, revealing elite lifestyles, long-distance trade, and Assyrian influence thousands of years ago. For a long time, life ...

The Ancients host Tristan Hughes and ancient historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones debate some wild theories about Ancient Persia.

King Charles III shakes hands with Assyrian Bishop Awraham Youkhanis, Bishop of Western Europe, at Westminster Abbey in London during a pre-Christmas service. (The Royal Family/X) History collided on ...

From a garden at the Holy Sepulchre to new dates for the Dead Sea Scrolls, new research is offering detailed glimpses into ...

Whether motivated by politics or drunken revelry, the destruction of Persepolis haunted its conqueror until the end of his ...

Excavations at the ancient Anatolian city of Kanesh in Turkey have revealed a district where merchants from the distant Mesopotamian city of Assur in Iraq lived and worked. Some 23,000 cuneiform ...

When and where is AFCON 2025? The latest edition of AFCON will take place from Sunday December 21 2025 to Sunday January 18 2026, marking the first time the tournament has taken place over the ...

Following Azerbaijan’s lightning offensive and occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh on September 19, 2023, the ethnic Armenian enclave was officially dissolved on January 1, 2024. Faced with the prospect of ...