Whatever you think of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, come January, the next four years promise to be critical in ...

The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.

A joint team of archaeologists from the Durham University and the University of Al-Qadisiyah stumbled across the site while ...

University of Miami Religious Studies Professor Henry A. Green highlights the story of Jews who fled their homelands in the ...

With Iraq considering lowering the marriage age for girls to nine, Newsweek looks at marriage and consent laws around the ...

Archaeologists discover ancient site of key Iraq battle thanks to old spy photos - Iraqis who grew up under the rule of ...

One of the most important sites in Islam's history has now been identified and surveyed, owing to US spy satellite images ...

As part of their survey, researchers examined declassified U.S. spy satellite imagery from the 1970s, which is now in the public domain, and compared the visual data to modern-day photography and ...

The oldest surviving world map, known as the Imago Mundi, offers a fascinating glimpse into ancient Babylonian life. Dating ...

The 3,000-year-old map places the Ark beyond Mesopotamia, in an unknown land where jewels hang from trees instead of fruit.

Scientists have deciphered the world’s oldest map — and they believe it may lead ... say it shows ancient Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, surrounded by “Bitter River,” a double ring ...

Iraq has condemned Israel for violating its airspace to launch attacks on Iran, sending a protest letter to the UN. Baghdad's statement highlights the infringement on its sovereignty and calls for ...