Did you know Damascus, Syria, has been home to people for about 3000 B.C.E.? Today, it has a population of around 2.6 million ...

Two decades after US military invasion left it spiraling out of control, a more stable Iraq is beginning to attract ...

The first convert Avram made was a neighbor named Eved Shemesh from the city of Damascus, He was a sun worshiper. Once, when Eved Shemesh got a bad sunburn, Avram asked him if the sun god was angry at ...

famous for compiling the world’s first legal code—enabled Babylon to eclipse the Sumerian capital, Ur, as the region’s most powerful city. Although Babylon declined after Hammurabi’s death ...

in the city of Nagsu on the Iturungal canal. On the fifth day he set up ... in the shrine Ili-tappe. He captured Ur-Ninazu (and) Nabi-Enlil, generals whom he (Tirigan) had sent as envoys to the land ...

Digging through ancient rubbish at Ur near the Persian Gulf in 1929 ... in about 4000 B.C. covered the river plains of southern Mesopotamia, the center of the known world of that time.

When we talk about a phalanx in a military context, we automatically think of Alexander the Great’s Macedonian army, with its ...