And so it goes, the cycle of exile and remembrance, uprooting and rerooting. With the Passover holiday, those free can celebrate their freedom, and those who are rooted, their rootedness. Yet at the ...

Near the start of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, there was a massive but largely forgotten battle between the Greeks and the ...

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A group of archaeologists has successfully deciphered a4,000-year-old collection of cuneiform tablets that reveal ominous ...

Researchers have just deciphered a series of Babylonian astrological tablets inscribed 3,800 years ago — and the results are ...

Organizers said the world-renowned parade has annually drawn about 2 million spectators with 150,000 participants.

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Seleucus of Seleucia was an ancient astronomer who defended heliocentrism, arguing that Earth orbits the Sun and rotates on ...

Simply put, pi is a mathematical constant that expresses the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It figures ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

This photo provided by João Zilhão shows forearm bone fragments belonging to an ancient child that appeared to have features from both humans and Neanderthals. (João Zilhão via AP) Advertisement ...

(250306) -- BAGHDAD, March 6, 2025 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on March 4, 2025 shows the ancient site of Babylon in Babil province,Iraq. (Xinhua/Duan Minfu) ...