A rchaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality. The segmentation ...

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In recent years, women in Arab markets during Ramadan have been increasingly wearing the abaya, a traditional, loose-fitting ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

Published in the Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, Gard Granerød’s article, “How Tall Is the God of the Tabernacle ...

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The earliest Arabs, Semitic peoples related to the Akkadians of Mesopotamia ... which became the official religion of the Himyarite Kingdom for 150 years, from 380 to 523 CE.

The Chaldean patriarch of Baghdad, Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, said most of the Iraqi population has been distressed by Pope ...

A total lunar eclipse will be viewable in the United States overnight into Friday morning. Here's some rituals to practice.

The most joyful thing is to get together and break the fast,” said Mashhor Alshrieef, a congregant at the Islamic Center of ...