In the 1930s, archaeologists discovered the Babylon Battery near Baghdad, a clay jar with a copper cylinder, iron rod, and bitumen, resembling a modern galvanic cell. This artifact raises the ...

This isn't the first time this has happened. Our .mil destroyed the monastery at Monte Casino in Italy during WWII because PHG (that's Pointy Haired General) Clark decided it was being used as a base ...

One of the earliest persons we know that we can call an "archaeologist" was a sixth-century BC Babylonian man.

Archaeologists search for Assyrian artifacts that survived the Isis occupation of Mosul. A moving story of a people reclaiming their cultural heritage after an occupying force tried to erase it.

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A new exhibition in London explores the reality behind the myths of ancient Babylon through art and relics from the historic site. "Babylon: Myth and Reality" at the British ...

WASHINGTON | A nearly 2,600-year-old clay cylinder described as the world's first human rights declaration is being shown for the first time in the United States. The Cyrus Cylinder from ancient ...