But around 4,000 years ago in the Early Bronze Age, a grisly chapter of British prehistory unfolded there. Thousands of human bones excavated in the 1970s and 1980s in a shaft that plunges about ...

Archaeologists in Iraq excavated a 2,600-year-old temple and found shrines, a stone monument and written tablets, photos show. Photo from the Penn Museum Ancient invaders tore through a massive ...

The Azerbaijani delegation, including the Culture Minister Adil Karimli and representatives of culture and art, have visited the monument to the great Azerbaijani poet and thinker Nizami Ganjavi ...

Two attempts to assassinate Pope Francis when he made a historic visit to northern Iraq were foiled by British spies and police inside the country, Francis has revealed in his new autobiography.

Van Looy was the first rider to win all five of cycling's Monument Classics and only Eddy Merckx and Roger De Vlaeminck have since equalled that feat. Van Looy was also a two-time world champion ...

Security forces thwarted a pair of assassination attempts against Pope Francis — including a suicide bomber — during his March 2021 visit to Iraq, the pontiff shared in his new memoir.

According to excerpts of his upcoming autobiography, suicide bombers had planned to attack him during his 2021 visit to Iraq, but were killed before striking. Italian daily Corriere della Sera on ...

The first-ever Iraq visit by a pope could've ended disastrously, but a foiled assassination plot has enabled Pope Francis to write about the event in retrospect. "Almost everyone advised me ...

Suicide bombers had planned to attack Pope Francis on a trip to Iraq in 2021, but were killed before they could strike, according to his autobiography. British intelligence informed Iraqi police ...