The rediscovery of Charax Spasinou, linked to Alexander the Great, highlights the importance of archaeology in understanding Hellenistic civilisation, ancient trade networks, and cultural exchange.

A team of researchers has discovered that the ancient craftsmen of Mesopotamia applied material engineering principles remarkably similar to those used today to make asphalt. The study, published in ...

Deep in the deserts of Iraq, the lost city of Charax Spasinou has finally been found. It seems it had been hiding under the Earth for more than a mill.

In an effort to make history lessons more engaging and rooted in real artefacts, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu ...

An 8,000-year-old pottery vessel has revealed that Mesopotamians were using mathematics years before numbers and writing were invented, according to a recent study. At such a critical moment in US ...

One of the last cities ever founded by Alexander the Great, later dubbed Charax Spasinou, has finally been rediscovered.

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Alexandria on the Tigris was Alexander the Great’s lost trade capital linking India, Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean.

“These vessels represent the first moment in history when people chose to portray the botanical world as a subject worthy of artistic attention,” Krulwich and Garfinkel said. “It reflects a cognitive ...

Other favourite monsters of modernity were similarly re-created: the most familiar element of the werewolf myth, the fatal silver bullet, was devised in 1941 for the Hollywood movie The Wolf Man, and ...

On Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island, soaring architecture and cutting-edge museums are reshaping history into a story the desert has never told before ...

Archaeologists decode ancient Mesopotamian tablets, revealing eerie omens that predict the fall of empires and the death of kings.