A recent push by the NASA Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to shine a light into that darkness has been illuminating, to say the least.

The Mesopotamian civilisation, which arose around 3400 BC, was one of the earliest urban civilisations. It was situated ...

While Iraq is safe for tourists in many regions, it's wise to stay informed about local conditions and steer clear of conflict areas.

The panoramic view that each summit rewards you with is, more than often, so addictive that you cannot wait to hike another mountain. Quench your thirst for new heights and hike your way to some of ...

The year 2025 is considered by Christians to be a jubilee year under the banner of debt cancellation. To mark the occasion, the CADTM is republishing a series of articles on debt cancellation, the ...

HOUSTON — Four billion years ago, Mars might have looked a lot more like Earth than we thought – not on the surface, where rusty red deserts stretched toward the horizon, but deep underground, where ...

Once you endure two long and rather tedious drag lifts, you can glide through the rest of Espace San Bernardo’s 160 kilometers of varied pistes and mountain restaurants serving generous plates ...

This article explores the practices of indigenous tea growers on Jingmai Mountain who continue to use ancient techniques to cultivate a premium tea. It highlights the spiritual significance of the tea ...

Royal board game of Ur. Credit: Mary Harrsch / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 In 1977, archaeologists excavating an ancient cemetery in southeastern Iran uncovered an astonishing find: a 4,500-year-old Mesopotamian ...

A newfound clay head from the sixth millennium B.C. is the first of its kind ever found in Kuwait, but similar finds have been unearthed from ancient Mesopotamia. Archaeologists in Kuwait have ...

Geologists have for the first time determined how coastal mountains in eastern Asia formed, resulting in significant changes to the continent's climate more than 100 million years ago. Until now, ...