In 2014, the IS terrorist group took control of the Iraqi city of Mosul, systematically destroying its many cultural ...

Coles spent the next four months as a prisoner of war - first in a hospital near Paderborn in Germany and then in a ...

As a young British Army officer heading for Afghanistan, Barney Campbell visited the Dardanelles, scene of one of the First ...

He saw action in 1914 in Mesopotamia as well as in East Africa ... he draw attention to the fact he had served in the British army. He married Mary Siggins Kennedy and devoted much of his later ...

Babel, whose original derivation from the Hebrew name for Babylon dates even further back to Akkadian—an extinct East Semitic language spoken in ancient Mesopotamia—refers to the Akkadian name ...

Mesopotamia's trade networks collapsed and ... Indus Valley people seem to have been peaceful. If they had an army, they have left few signs of weapons or battles. It's more likely that the ...

Disney+ Hotstar boasts an impressive library of historical dramas that will take you back in time and transport you to ...

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India is marking its 76th Republic Day today (). This year’s celebrations are extra special as the Constitution, which came ...

BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of ...

‘200 men, fight for 2-3 days, then smash arms and surrender'. He also served in the British Army in WWI, enlisting in June 1915. He was posted to Mesopotamia (Iraq)to fight the Turks. He was ...