This video explores the Byzantine Sasanian War of 602 to 628, a brutal and decisive conflict that nearly destroyed two great empires and reshaped the balance of power in the Middle East. It traces how ...

In just four decades, Hammurabi transformed Babylon from an overlooked city-state into the dominant power of Mesopotamia. This chapter explores the wars, diplomacy, and revolutionary law code that ...

BOULDER, CO, UNITED STATES, February 20, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Two days of online-only auctions scheduled for February 26 and 27 will mark the first of many anticipated collaborative efforts ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University is shedding light on a long-overlooked social group in archaeology: the elderly. While research on women and children has flourished in recent decades, older ...

First, you don’t get to surrender in a genocide. The Holocaust is the history of a people who weren’t even at war with the ...

Ancient Neo-Assyrian artwork showing a procession of deities has been found in an Iron Age tunnel complex carved into the bedrock in Turkey. The unfinished, yet exceptional ancient artwork was ...

Starting from a base in Mesopotamia, the Neo-Assyrian Empire (883–609 B.C.) expanded to control territory that stretched from western Iran to the Mediterranean and from Anatolia to Egypt. In the ...

In his book, Jonathan Valk asks a deceptively simple question: What did it mean to be Assyrian in the 2nd millennium BCE? Extraordinary evidence from Assyrian society across this millennium enables an ...

A new study challenges the long-accepted belief that the Assyrian Empire pioneered cavalry in the ancient Near East. The research argues that mounted horses warfare first took shape among the Luwian ...

About 3,000 years ago during the Iron Age, the Assyrians were a major power in the Middle East and North Africa. Their military might was terrifying. And now, a new archaeological finding reveals more ...

Mike Duncan knows how empires fall. He’s covered history’s most defining collapses, upheavals, and regime changes through the Revolutions and History of Rome podcasts — the latter being a 179 episode, ...