"Cursed! The Power of Magic in the Ancient World" arrives in March, bringing together 75 objects from across two millennia ...

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Introduction / Joan Aruz -- The Middle Bronze Age / Mogens Trolle Larsen -- Babylon / Béatrice André-Salvini -- Mari / Jean-Claude Margueron -- Ebla / Paolo Matthiae -- The development of trade routes ...

“Young Lion Resting” (c1638-42) is co-owned by the Franco-American collector and metals billionaire Thomas Kaplan and by Jon Ayers, a former animal healthcare industry leader. They are selling their ...

Aquarius the Water Bearer represents those who bring with them new and refreshing ideas ...

The word “harem” appears numerous times in the Epstein files, revealing the disgraced financier’s unsettling Orientalist ...

From Washington’s perspective, the latest round of U.S.–Iran talks in Oman was never meant to be a breakthrough. It was a ...

Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to stand face to face with a real Egyptian mummy without ever leaving Georgia? At the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, that unforgettable moment is ...

Gilgamesh, the builder-king of Uruk, and Achilles, the destroyer-prince of Phthia, represent the primal archetypes of the ...

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

A rock shelter discovered in the southern Sinai Desert contains designs and inscriptions spanning a period of 10,000 years, ...

The same travertine quarries near Rome that built St. Peter’s Basilica and the Colosseum are still being dug out today.