CHICAGO -- The Bible relates the tale of a battle in 701 B.C. for the city of Jerusalem, waged by the Assyrian King Sennacherib. The Old Testament tells it from the side of the Jewish King Hezekiah, ...

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Boulder, Colo., USA: When early humans began to travel out of Africa and spread into Eurasia over a hundred thousand years ago, a fertile region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea called the Levant ...

Scientists have found evidence of Bronze Age human civilization written into ancient cattle DNA, according to a new study. The research team collected and sequenced DNA samples from ancient ...

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All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Sid Meier's Civilization V: Cradle of Civilization Map Pack - Mesopotamia This is the traditional Western and Middle Eastern “Cradle of Civilization." It ...