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Who are the Assyrians?The Assyrians are a people who have lived in the Middle East since ancient times and today can be found all over the world.
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Cuneiform inscription from last king of Babylon discovered in Saudi ArabiaA 2,550-year-old inscription, written in the name of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, has been discovered carved on basalt stone in northern Saudi Arabia.
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Ancient Babylon, the iconic Mesopotamian city that survived for 2,000 yearsReference Babylon, the ancient Mesopotamian civilization, existed from roughly 2000 B.C. to 540 B.C.
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Is the Red Sea really red?The Red Sea takes its name from periodic blooms of a blue-green algae called Trichodesmium erythraeum, which turn the normally vivid blue waters a reddish-brown.
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Lost city, a real-life 'Helm's Deep,' possibly discovered in IraqMountain fortress in Iraq is said to be part of the lost city Natounia.
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Mesopotamia: The Land Between Two RiversIrrigation, writing, trigonometry, calculus — many important discoveries and innovations were made in "the land between two rivers."
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Who were the ancient Persians?Reference The Persians, originally a semi-nomadic people from central Asia, settled on the Iranian plateau and founded the Achaemenid Empire.
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Ancient Bronze Age city reemerges from Iraq river after extreme droughtArchaeologists raced to investigate an ancient Bronze Age city in Iraq after it re-emerged from a reservoir following an extreme drought.
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Vast 4,500-year-old network of 'funerary avenues' discovered in Saudi ArabiaArchaeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered 4,500-year-old "funerary avenues" alongside thousands of pendant-shaped tombs.
