Back when I was driving to college and back home again, the road to our house in the desert seemed painfully dull. Because it ...

ASSYRIA, Mich. — One man is in critical condition after being shot early Saturday morning near Assyria, according to the Barry County Sheriff's Office. The shooting happened on North Avenue near ...

AMMAN - Petra's architecture had been under the strong Greco-Roman influence, but other styles were also seen, originating ...

The items displayed Syrian and Phoenician iconography in addition to central Assyrian Art. The treasures Belonged to: Yaba, Queen of Tiglathpileser III, king of Assyria 744-727 Banitu, Queen of ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in central London. Crossing the threshold, the courier handed a wax-sealed ...

In 1862, the architect Jakob Ignaz Hittorffdrew similarity between Petra's monument and a fresco belonging to the Second Style visible in the House of the Labyrinth in Pompeii, where a tholos with a ...

A Hadith declares that the month of Ramadan was when the three Abrahamic Religions received their Books of Revelation. According to a Hadith cited by ibn Kathir in elucidating Qur’an 2:185; Ramadan is ...

Prophecies have been debated for generations, and the city of Damascus has survived the rise and fall of empires.

The Imago Mundi, the oldest known world map, offers a rare glimpse into the way ancient Babylonians viewed their world.

The historian Moshe Sharon demonstrated in 2002 that the detailed descriptions of the battles of the Islamic conquests ...

The architect who will lead the British Museum’s redeveloped western wing has been announced.

The British Museum has just unveiled the winning design in an international architectural competition for the substantial ...