Herodotus’ Histories reveal shocking funeral customs, from Greek cremations to an Indian tribe that ate their parents.

A new study published in the journal IRAQ has cast doubt on the long-accepted completeness of the Babylonian version of the famous Bisotun (Behistun) Inscription, one of the most important trilingual ...

We've rounded up and ranked the most powerful and influential empires in history, from the globe-spanning dominions of ...

Conservation teams in the UNESCO-registered Susa have completed a project to safeguard and protect 253 architectural remains from the Achaemenid-era Apadana Palace, the head of the Susa World Heritage ...

What we know about Babylonia is mostly derived from clay tablets. Tens of thousands of these cuneiform texts have been found in the last century and for some periods these tell us a great deal about ...

From the Minoan royal road to the Ridgeway, ancient roads still exist today showing how past civilizations built networks ...

From the rise of Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BCE to the vast dominion of Darius and Xerxes, the First Persian ...