A new study reveals that the first true cavalry emerged among the Luwian and Aramean states, predating the Assyrian Empire by ...

Invading armies can topple a state, but republics are often undone from within—by the neglect of those sworn to their care.

How did the power and ferocious Cimmerians almost conquer all of Anatolia, and what finally put a stop to them?

After the collapse of the Chalcolithic culture around 3500 BCE, people in Jordan’s Murayghat transformed their way of life, shifting from domestic settlements to ritual landscapes filled with dolmens, ...

Through Google Earth’s lens, we retrace the dramatic Fall of Constantinople in 1453. In just one minute, we chart the city’s ...

The seal is thought to be from the same time period when Assyria conquered Judah and made it a vassal state required to pay ...