Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...

Sifting through the tan dirt of northern Iraq, archaeologists looked at the remnants of an ancient empire’s capital city.

Archaeologists from Heidelberg University have made a discovery in Iraq, unearthing fragments of a monumental bas-relief dating back to the 7th century BCE in the throne room of the North Palace of ...

During the 2011 Arab Spring, when popular protests toppled several Middle Eastern autocrats, the UAE rooted out any opposition. Throughout 2012, the UAE’s State Security Apparatus (SSA ...