The kaffiyeh is a square-shaped hand-woven checkered scarf with a wavy motif around the border– representing olive leaves—and ...

The Assyrians of northern Mesopotamia rose to political power in the first millennium BCE and united all of Mesopotamia and neighboring lands under the Assyrian Empire before falling to the ...

as in Egypt and Mesopotamia, is Arabic, it is a deliberate misrepresentation to classify the inhabitants as ‘Arabs.’ These are the people whose status the Political Zionist proposes to reduce ...

Hammurabi, the sixth king of the First Dynasty of Babylon, is not only remembered for his famous legal code but also for ...

From ancient scrolls to today's sleek, biometric marvels, the passport's journey mirrors humanity's quest for freedom and ...

said antiquities from the British Museum showed how ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and India all adopted the gesture for different reasons from power and respect to political ...

The geographic area we now call Iraq has long sat between empires as a battleground, bridge or frontier ...

Mesopotamia—“the land between two rivers ... B.C.). Koldewey’s finds revealed an ancient locus of culture and political power. These excavations unearthed what was to become one of ...

Mesopotamia was not unique in this regard ... in the “Bamboo Annals,” an eclipse would have triggered the political and ...

This is her 12th novel and is already hitting bestseller lists. The title will resonate with New Zealanders, since, of late, ...

From a new novel by Sally Rooney to a book about the consequences of U.S. foreign policy, these titles cover a range of ...

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