Historical texts that mentioned details about the battle site helped researchers match the images to the lost town of ...

President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Department of Defense wrote in a best-selling book that "the next commander in chief will need to clean ...

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With Iraq considering lowering the marriage age for girls to nine, Newsweek looks at marriage and consent laws around the ...

Archaeologists have discovered the site of the ancient Battle of al-Qadisiyyaha in Iraq using declassified photos from a US ...

A joint team of archeologists from the U.K.’s Durham University and the University of Al-Qadisiyah stumbled across the site while undertaking a remote sensing survey to map the Darb Zubaydah, a ...

Archaeologists say they have found the site of an ancient battle in what is now Iraq by comparing historical accounts with ...

Researchers have identified a "hugely significant" ancient battle site with the help of declassified U.S. spy satellite images. A team of archaeologists from the U.K.'s Durham University and Iraq's ...

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The oldest surviving world map, known as the Imago Mundi, offers a fascinating glimpse into ancient Babylonian life. Dating ...

The 3,000-year-old map places the Ark beyond Mesopotamia, in an unknown land where jewels hang from trees instead of fruit.