The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and complex links with neighbors. A room in Sennacherib’s palace in Nineveh with ...
After the Elamites shattered Ur, Mesopotamia splintered into rival kingdoms, ambitious warlords, and fragile survivor states fighting over the ruins of Sumer. This chapter follows Shamshi-Adad’s ...
American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky died last year after suffering an abnormal heartbeat and had multiple drugs in his system at the time, according to a toxicology report that ruled the ...
Excavations at the ancient Anatolian city of Kanesh in Turkey have revealed a district where merchants from the distant Mesopotamian city of Assur in Iraq lived and worked. Some 23,000 cuneiform ...
The Sun's smash-hit podcast on the all-conquering Irish drugs cartel is returning for a new series - as top cops warn the net is finally closing in HE is one of the most notorious mob bosses in the ...
Now that the final deadline for underclassmen to declare for the 2026 NFL Draft has passed, it's officially Mock Draft Season! After getting a chance to dig into the game tape, I feel that there are ...
Daniel Scheffler is a Madrid-based travel writer who writes about cultural travel, identity and the human stories that shape how we move through the world. Scheffler is also the host of Without Maps, ...
Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world’s grandest imperial capitals Archaeologists didn’t know what to expect when they began searching for a 2,700-year-old ...
New evidence sheds light on the remarkable life—and mysterious collapse—of the ancient jungle city. Deep in the Cambodian jungle lie the ruins of Angkor, a marvel of urban engineering and seat of the ...
View of the ruins of Assur, with the ziggurat in the background and the remains of walls and temples in the foreground. Credit: Fakhri Mahmood / Wikimedia Commons Investigations with coring samples ...
Option 1: The man in Daniel 9:27 is the Roman general Titus Vespasianus, whom we met in Daniel 9:26, who will destroy the ...