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How these precious commodities reached the empire is the focus of a new exhibition, From Sharjah to Rome: Along the Spice Route, currently on display at the Curia Julia – the former seat of the Roman ...

It was 1900 when a Briton discovered oil in Mosul (whence the word muslin), not far from the legendary site of the Garden of Eden, in the shadow of Mesopotamia ... a pocked desert land to ...

Cairo, Los Angeles and Sydney have all been abandoned to drought and desert. Climate change has ... and an equal with Ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia ... and it had been totally forgotten.

Standing at the edge of Dholavira is witnessing history textbooks crammed in school coming to life. One is suddenly standing ...

Explore the origins of the 8 oldest sports in human history, including running, boxing, and gymnastics, and how they shaped the athletic events we know today.

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Born An-Nassir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyubid, Saladin was born in 1137 and grew to become the founder of the … Continue reading "How Much Did You Know About The Life Of Saladin?" ...

Ammianus Marcellinus was a Roman soldier and historian of Greek origin. He is best known for his work Res Gestae, which chronicles the history of the Roman Empire from the reign of Nerva (96 AD) to ...

The Umayyads hastily built desert castles to protect themselves like this one ... on the Islamic world by moving the capital to their power base in Baghdad in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq). The empire ...

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