A planet is about to be destroyed by the collapse of a binary star system in Slow Gods, Claire North’s first venture into ...

Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited for many firsts in ...

CHRISTIANITY today is the world’s largest faith — embraced by more than 2 billion people. From open democracies to closed regimes, every continent has been touched by its influence. Yet Christianity ...

Researchers have discovered a large 5,000-year-old temple in northern Iraq, at the Kani Shaie site in Sulaymaniyah province.

A study reveals that Sumer, the cradle of civilization, rose because of natural tidal irrigation that shaped the world’s ...

As archaeologists slowly excavate this ancient statue from the earth, they are, in a sense, awakening a witness to humanity's earliest attempts to comprehend the cosmos and to communicate with the ...

Climate change and rising salinity threaten Iraq's ancient cities like Ur and Babylon, imperiling thousands of years of ...

Saint Isaac of Nineveh withdrew into solitude, not out of contempt for the world, but to rediscover its divine beauty through prayer. His emphasis on silence and stillness as pathways to understanding ...

Avraham was our progenitor. He made a discovery that dwarfs those of Pythagoras, Galileo and Einstein. He set in motion the ability of humankind to civilize itself and develop a moral and ethical ...