After the Elamites shattered Ur, Mesopotamia splintered into rival kingdoms, ambitious warlords, and fragile survivor states fighting over the ruins of Sumer. This chapter follows Shamshi-Adad’s ...

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The Quote of the Day of the day belongs to none other than the legendary Pythagoras. This ancient Greek scholar and ...

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Stop Looking Away “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” By Fanta Kamara, MBA, ...

Images from Free Iran protests around the world have drawn attention: alongside Iranian flags and the historic Lion and Sun ...

Sitting near the Tigris River and the Persian Gulf in southern Iran, the port city was a major trade hub until shifting ...