As part of their survey, researchers examined declassified U.S. spy satellite imagery from the 1970s, which is now in the public domain, and compared the visual data to modern-day photography and ...

A joint team of archeologists from the U.K.'s Durham University and the University of Al-Qadisiyah stumbled across the site while undertaking a remote sensing survey to map the Darb Zubaydah ...

Researchers used declassified spy satellite images to pinpoint the historic Battle of al-Qadisiyyah ...

Archaeologists say they have found the site of an ancient battle in what is now Iraq by comparing historical accounts with ...

The Battle of al-Qadisiyyah was a crucial victory for Arab Muslim forces of the Rashidun Caliphate over the Sasanian Empire.

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

But Mount Vesuvius’ eruption wiped it and other nearby Roman settlements off the map ... North Africa and the Middle East, while Pompeii was located next to one of the ancient world’s busiest ...

Jerry Brotton hails from northern England, and in “Four Points of the Compass,” he notes that the caricatures associated with southern cultures such as Italy’s are reversed in his native country, ...

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The conflict between Israel and Palestinians — and other groups in the Middle East — goes back decades. These stories provide context for current developments and the history that led up to them.

In the latest retaliatory strikes, U.S. forces hit a weapons storage and logistics facility after militia groups launched a rocket attack on U.S. personnel at Patrol Base Shaddadi in eastern Syria.