A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a ...

The enslaved people carried out a famous large-scale revolt in Iraq in 869 AD under the Abbasid state, known today as the ...

Cutting-edge imaging technologies are helping archaeologists uncover the secrets of vast outdoor sites, revealing the rich ...

He ruled from AD 41 to 54 and is credited with extending Roman rule to parts of North Africa. Ancient Egyptian sphinxes often represented a king or royal with the body of a lion, as a symbol of ...

The idea of connecting the Red and the Mediterranean Seas, along with the Nile River, haunted the ancient Egyptians for years. “Lots of references to the Sesostris Canal were found in the ...

The African Queen underwent a $70,000 restoration in time for its 2012 centennial, and today it offers 90-minute dinner outings (with a stop at a waterfront restaurant) and canal cruise tours to ...

A recently approved expansion plan will double canal capacity by 2015. In late August, traffic jams at the Atlantic and Pacific entrances to the Panama Canal impeded a healthy chunk of the world's ...

It is now thought that harsh conditions involved with creating this agricultural system may have directly provoked the famous a.d. 869 Zanj Rebellion, in which enslaved Black Africans revolted ...

The renovated Kestros Fountain is a unique monument of the ancient city of Perga in Antalya, Turkey. Credit: Seynaeve, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons The central fountain of the ancient Greek city ...