Iraq on Monday officially banned alcohol in social clubs and hotels - among the last venues serving booze - in what might be the last step in the country’s drawn-out process of stamping out alcohol.

THE Sumerians they were a sedentary population of the ancient world, lived in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) over the ...

Drawing from his book, “Wounded Tigris: A River Journey Through the Cradle of Civilization,” McCarron recounted his ...

Mesopotamia, often known as the cradle of ... The Roman Civilization, founded in 753 BCE, began as a small city-state but grew to become an expansive empire that reshaped most of Europe and ...

Babylonia was often involved in rivalry with the state of Assyria in the north of Mesopotamia ... was turned into a small kingdom around the city of Babylon. It was also home to one of the ...

For millennia, frankincense has been harvested in this region of Oman and traded to far-flung places such as Mesopotamia, ...

Jane Pauley hosts our annual "Eat, Drink & Be Merry" holiday broadcast exploring all things epicurean! Check out our ...

Cities are undoubtedly at the core of our civilization, from the earliest traces of urban settlements built over 6,000 years ...

In the dusty city states of ancient Mesopotamia, long before the advent of written language, mysterious symbols etched into ...

The Maratha War Memorial in Pune, a tribute to soldiers of World War I, is in a state of disrepair, calling attention to the neglect of historical sites amidst urban development. Activists urge ...

The establishment of the United States marked the reemergence of the large-scale republican state. In 1787, after the ...