BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of ...

Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway across the globe. Some of the more well-known examples ...

The world’s oldest map, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, may reveal the location of an […] ...

What does the latest Fortnite map look like? It’s not a new concept for Fortnite, but the island has taken on a Japanese feel again with the latest season: Hunters. This time, iconic characters ...

The western corner of the city with the new path of the Tigris river. The plan of the citadel. (View of Asurnasirpal II's palace with a view of the ziggurat associated with the Ninurta Temple). The ...

It's one of the few river deltas that empties into empty into fresh water rather than the sea, and its islands are "dotted with beautiful stilted houses", and restaurants, travel blog Sol Salute says.

Here’s how big the Yangtze is. A third of all the inhabitants of China (which means more than 400 million people) live in the area covered by the Yangtze’s river basin. The Yangtze basin provides ...

Alexander Dmitrievich Litovchenko, Charon carries souls across the river Styx (1861), oil on canvas, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. Credit: Alexander Dmitrievich Litovchenko, Public domain, via ...

The GEF-funded RIWE-Mono Project was launched in Grand Popo, Benin, on 30 January 2025, with the objective to ensure the sustainable development and ecological resilience of the Mono River Basin ...

A trough lies near the coast while another trough lies in the north, bringing showers and thunderstorms. These features will gradually weaken through the midweek. Then, a cold front and its associated ...