Scholars deciphered inscriptions on 4,000-year-old tablets more than 100 years after they were originally discovered. One ...

Archaeologists decode ancient Mesopotamian tablets, revealing eerie omens that predict the fall of empires and the death of kings.

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What was the political and economic importance of the ancient city Alexandria on the Tigris? How was the city laid out? And ...

A Moro kindergarten pupil died instantly after he got hit with a stray bullet in the head while inside their classroom in ...

COTABATO CITY — A 5-year-old boy was killed at his school in Maguindanao del Sur by a stray bullet, which police believed to have come from the raging firefight between political camps in the adjacent ...

"The ocean surface is definitely not flat. It is constantly changing as wind, waves and swells produce surface undulations, daily tidal fluctuations raise and lower the average height." ...

Honey was similarly associated with the gods in ancient India. In the 1,028 sacred hymns of the Vedic scriptures dating from 1500 BC, many frequently mention honey (madhu in Sanskrit) and claim that ...

Two thousand years ago, Alexandria on the Tigris was a flourishing trade centre and regional capital near the Persian Gulf. Today, only its extended rampart is visible in the southern Iraqi landscape.

When Alexander the Great passed away, his son, Alexander IV, was still in his mother's womb, making his succession a web of ...

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