Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

The Bronze Age was a period of intensive contacts in the Levant, Egypt, Mesopotamia and southern Europe. It rapidly developed ...

The oldest known example of writing comes from Mesopotamia and dates to about 3300 BC. In time different-looking writing appeared in the river valleys of Egypt, the Indus Valley, China and Central ...

Valentine’s Day is nigh upon us. Soon there will be floods of flowers, chunks of chocolate, crowds of cards and maybe even ...

Egypt, Syria and Mesopotamia. They prospered from the 4th century BC to the 1st century AD until the expansion of the Roman Empire subsumed much of their culture. Gradually, the Nabataean identity ...