Iraq's military says its forces and American troops have killed a senior commander with the Islamic State group who was ...

Beck’s central assertion, the one around which he bundles the many micro-observations of the book, is that it was the war on ...

When it comes to operating beyond the limits of the known world into the world of imagination, [the tablet] is indispensable, ...

"These newly reported discoveries [of mass graves] confirm our darkest fears. The people of Ukraine and the world deserve to ...

The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map.

The Taliban say gunmen have killed 14 people in a Shiite-majority area in central Afghanistan. It was one of the deadliest ...

The map was originally discovered in 1882 by renowned archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam in Sippar, an ancient Babylonian city in present-day Iraq. Although Rassam discovered the tablet nearly 150 years ...

The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time.

Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani says he plans to announce a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from the ...