Karna is one of the most celebrated heroes of the Mahabharata. Born to an unwed princess, Kunti, through a boon granted by Rishi Durvasa, Karna was abandoned at ...

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The Assyrian conqueror Sargon II (8th century BCE ... and counteroffensives devastates Anatolia, the Levant, and Mesopotamia. By 628, both superpowers are utterly exhausted, forced to return ...

We are talking about the region known as Mesopotamia, a name that translates as ‘between ... who hears the shocking news that his king, Sargon, has been killed in battle and his body carried off by ...

The Assyrian, Babylonia, and Sumerian cultures and languages were joined under one empire, allowing it to spread with great energy across Mesopotamia. Its founder is identified as Sargon of Akkad, who ...

Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality.

Archaeologists have uncovered a vast network of canals underneath the world’s oldest city in Mesopotamia, shedding more light on the rise of farming in the region. Researchers, led by ...

A sprawling, hidden network of ancient irrigation canals has been uncovered near the ancient city of Eridu in southern Mesopotamia. Under the leadership of geoarchaeologist Jaafar Jotheri ...