The domestication of wheat and barley in the Fertile Crescent marked a pivotal turning point in human history. This region, encompassing parts of mod ...

Sunken City Dated 3400 Years Old Emerges From a Reservoir, Identified as the Hub of a Bronze Age Empire Islands underwater ...

Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological ...

Some national borders are determined by natural phenomena like seas, mountains and rivers. Most, however, are created by ...