There, every sixth U.S. fatality perished by the efforts of Iran. President Donald Trump alluded to this history in announcing the U.S. air strikes on three nuclear facilities inside Iran—bringing the ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the ...

Once the crown jewel of the ancient Assyrian empire, the archaeological site was ravaged by Islamic State (IS) fighters after they seized large areas of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in 2014.

The University of Sharjah hosted an astrolabe workshop in which western scientists showed participants how an astronomical instrument made by an ancient Muslim scholar nearly 1,000 years ago measured ...

This Roman legionary armor, the only known example of its kind in the world, was found during the 2020 excavation in the ancient city of Satala in Gumushane province.

The Dendra armor, a full-body bronze plate suit made by the Mycenaeans in 1450 BCE, was found in a tomb in the early 1960s in the village of Dendra, in southern Greece, just a few kilometers from ...

The team focused on testing the Dendra armor, also known as the Dendra panoply, the study said. This ancient bronze suit was found in a tomb near Dendra, Greece, and is “one of the oldest ...

The ancient leather scale armor could be dated to the period between 786 and 543 BC. ( D.L. Xu, P. Wertmann, M. Yibulayinmu.) In the remote Yanghai cemetery near Turfan, Northwest China, a team of ...

A famous Mycenaean suit of armor was not just ceremonial, but suitable for extended combat, according to a study published May 22 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Andreas Flouris of the ...

The museum said the Arms and Armor Galleries is an approximately $6 million capital project for which the museum has raised $5.5 million to date.