Archaeologists from Durham University and University of Al-Qadisiyah in Iraq have pinpointed the location of a famous early Islamic battle using declassified spy satellite images.

Education wasn't always required, and in fact, many kids carried on the jobs their parents had instead of learning how to ...

The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — in present-day Iraq — in the ... The key features were a deep trench, two fortresses and an ancient river that was reportedly once forded by ...

The history of human writing is being rewritten after archaeologists found the origins of words engraved on 6,000-year-old ...

Archaeologists have identified the site of an ancient battle in what is now Iraq by comparing ... Sasanian Empire into the ...

Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site ...

It was in India that the first accurate system of standardised weights and measures was developed. And they had likely traded ...

As part of their survey, researchers examined declassified U.S. spy satellite imagery from the 1970s, which is now in the public domain, and compared the visual data to modern-day photography and ...

Researchers at the University of Bologna found a link between the engravings on cylinder seals from Uruk and Mesopotamian ...

It is said that Ancient Greek seamen and merchants traveling to Mesopotamia soon discovered the delights of baklava. They ...

2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 The ancient town of al-Natah ... archaeological sites in the region compared with better understood ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have used ancient DNA to challenge long-held interpretations of the people of Pompeii. Contrary to physical appearances, the DNA evidence revealed unexpected ...