Archaeologists from Durham University and University of Al-Qadisiyah in Iraq have pinpointed the location of a famous early Islamic battle using declassified spy satellite images.

The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — in present-day Iraq — in the ... that a site some 20 miles south of Kufa in Iraq's southern Najaf province — a desert area with scattered plots ...

Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site ...

Alexander the Great is one of the legendary conquerors of ancient history who sparked the imagination of generations of ...

French archaeologist Guillaume Charloux, who led the study published in the journal PLOS One on October 30, told AFP that an ...

The discovery of a 4,000-year-old fortified town hidden in an oasis in modern-day Saudi Arabia reveals how life at the time ...

The discovery of a 4,000-year-old fortified town hidden in an oasis in modern-day Saudi Arabia reveals how life at the time ...

Natah, reveal how life at the time was slowly changing from a nomadic to an urban existence, archaeologists said.

Natah, were long concealed by the walled oasis of Khaybar, a green and fertile speck surrounded by desert in the northwest of ...

Archaeologists announced Wednesday the discovery of a 4,000-year-old fortified town in an oasis in modern-day Saudi Arabia, ...

Syria condemned Israeli air strikes against Iran on Saturday, saying it affirmed its ally's right to self-defence. Expressing its "solidarity" with Iran, the Syrian foreign ministry said in a ...