In this "world," the people inhabiting Mesopotamia—what is now Iraq and part of Syria—believed ... Imago Mundi is an ancient map that not only opens the door to understanding Babylonian ...

A decade after jihadists ransacked Iraq's famed Nimrud site, archaeologists have been painstakingly putting together its ...

Will Syria be different? If you have a mental map of the Middle East ... Now, although it still has partners in Iraq and Yemen, it resembles a general with a collapsing army.