HANGZHOU, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- On the UNESCO world heritage map for five years, China's archaeological ruins of Liangzhu, in parallel with the Aegean Civilization in Greece, has gained growing ...

Historians have decoded inscriptions on an ancient tablet that is believed to be the oldest surviving map of the world. Reading the Babylonian relic, which includes a circular map accompanied by text ...

Cities are undoubtedly at the core of our civilization, from the earliest traces of urban settlements built over 6,000 years ...

At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched letters ...

Dr. Irving Finkel, Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script at the British Museum, led the team that unlocked the ...

Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site ...

The Arab Muslim victory at the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah paved the way for the Islamic conquest of Mesopotamia and Persia.

Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site ...

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

Declassified 1970- U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archaeological team to what they believe is the site of ...

The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia, in present-day Iraq, in the AD 630s between Arab Muslims and ... and ...