The Constitution, Charter or Covenant of Medina pre-dated the English Magna Carta by almost six centuries. It applied to the 10,000+ citizens living in Medina at that time. About 45-55% of the total ...

A 3,000-year-old relief reveals how Assyrian divers used stealth tactics and flotation devices to wage silent river warfare.

Goliath was a mighty Philistine warrior who appears as a giant in the Bible and was an enemy of the Israelites whom David killed.

Egypt’s 18th dynasty rose to the start of the New Kingdom (c. 1550–1077 BCE) and was the zenith of Egyptian international ...

The Phoenicians were known for their exceptional naval skills which stemmed from two notable innovations at the time. HEre's ...

Idealism, a hunger for power and a wish to prosper have driven some of the earliest efforts to build a world order.

The area today occupied by southeastern Jordan was rich in copper, which Egypt used in everything from tools to weapons to pigments—it would later be competed over by the Assyrians and Babylonians.

They incited Assyrian vassals to rebel, as Rusa I did with Ullusunu of Mannea. Afterwards, they offered clemency to defeated kings who submitted, thus avoiding prolonged wars. Urartu demonstrated that ...

Some fragments resemble Greek pottery. Kleiman suggests Greek mercenaries may have served in the Egyptian army. Greek and Assyrian sources mention Greek soldiers fighting for Egypt during the 26th ...

“Service of Greeks, probably from western Anatolia, in the Egyptian army of the 26th Dynasty is referred to in both Greek [from Herodotus] and Assyrian sources,” Kleiman noted. “The ...

"Service of Greeks, probably from western Anatolia, in the Egyptian army of the 26th Dynasty is referred to in both Greek [from Herodotus] and Assyrian sources," Kleiman noted. "The possibility of ...

The discovery of large amounts of Egyptian and Greek pottery at Megiddo ... that ended that occupation at the hands of the Assyrian army under Tiglath-Pileser III around 732 BCE.