The U.S. military did major damage to the site of one of the wonders of the ancient world while converting it into a base, the United Nations said in a new report. The site of the Hanging Gardens of ...

African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia, pearl divers in the Gulf, soldiers in the Omani army and workers on the salt pans of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Many people were domestic slaves ...

“Under a policy so rigorously defined,” read the Mesopotamia Commission, “it is not unnatural that military and medical officers thought that they were best discharging their duty to the ...

Modern historiography has tended to assume that violence was the primary driving force behind the formation of the first ...

This is where the majority of British and Irish soldiers fought in World War One. Though they also saw action in: Gallipoli (modern day Turkey) Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) Africa If you were a ...