During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...

High in the rugged cliffs of Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley, two colossal statues once gazed out over a land crisscrossed by ...

When the ancient Greeks faced the Persians in the Battle of Artemisium, they set the tone for the Battle of Salamis. Credit: wikimedia commons / Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany CC BY-SA 3.0 When the ...

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Discovered in the sandy countryside near Oxyrhynchus, the document offers a rare glimpse into... Reading like the lyrics to a popular song or poem from modern times, two ancient Greek inscriptions in ...

Inari shrines are decorated with fox statues, and kitsune are seen as ... links to the forces that sustained life itself. In ancient Persia, lions represented strength, courage, and nobility.

The Persian empire pioneered women's rights. Other contemporary cultures made jokes about it and considered Persians unmanly.

Research has shown that the statues were originally located in a room next to the step pyramid of Djoser, but in later periods of the history of Ancient Egypt they were moved to the tomb of ...

NCERT's new Class 7 Social Science textbook combines History, Geography, and Civics into one comprehensive book.

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

Lions: In ancient Persia, the majestic lion, with its strength and regal bearing, was a potent symbol of royalty, power, and divine authority in ancient civilisations. The Dog: In ancient Greece, the ...