Anafi is a small Greek island near Santorini that rewards visitors with its natural beauty, serenity and warm hospitality.

Thousands of years before modern religion, the people of Sumer worshipped a powerful deity they called the "Mother of All Kings." Ninhursag was the architect of life itself, a goddess of fertility ...

A Babylonian 'time capsule' buried for more than two millennia under the ruins of a ziggurat in modern-day Iraq has revealed never-before-seen details about the biblical king Nebuchadnezzar II. Two ...

• The KV55 Controversy: DNA analysis from 2010 identified the desecrated mummy in Tomb KV55 as the likely father of Tutankhamun and the heretic king Akhenaten himself, but the lack of severe physical ...

Both the Mesopotamian countries of Iran (ancient Persia) and Iraq (ancient Babylonia or Chaldea) had a phenomenal historic ...

Across the globe, iconic monuments and sacred sites—from Bamiyan to Palmyra—bear the scars of conflict, showing how war can erase culture, memory, and history in an instant. Here is a look at seven of ...

When we look at Iran through the prism of religion and see a Shia Islamic country, we negate its thousands of years of rich ...

From the earliest movements of wandering tribes to the rise of organised kingdoms, the lands that are today India and Iran have long moved along intertwined paths.

The pop-up exhibition in downtown Los Angeles takes visitors through the real world of the virtual band. It runs through ...