Alexandria on the Tigris reemerges as archaeologists map a forgotten port city that once powered ancient global trade.

Archaeologists say they’ve finally pinpointed the site of a long-lost city founded by Alexander the Great - a bustling port ...

They felt the more pressing challenges included rebuilding America’s industrial base and confronting the rise of China. Yet here America is, once again, fighting a war to reorder a society in the ...

Neurologists explain when you should pay careful attention to any unusual dreams.

When I shared my opinion on astrology and horoscopes, she simply replied, “Typical Taurus.” Astrology is currently ...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at Saarland University and archaeologist Ewa ...

In southern Russia, archaeologists have uncovered an ancient board game that may hold the key to the origins of chess.

Around the turn of the millennium, once it became clear that the internet was not the fad that detractors assumed it to be, a handful of horror directors started engaging with the peculiar terrors of ...

As the Iran war expands, the roots of many West Asia conflicts lie in the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the European agreements that redrew the region's borders after World War I.

In 1978, the people of Iran erupted into protests against the shah. He was quickly overthrown, and he and his family went ...

A 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet reveals the oldest known trigonometric table, showing ancient scribes used precise triangle ratios.