Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

The Nile Delta and most of Egypt north of Abydos were ruled at this time by the Hyksos—a foreign dynasty from the East—while most of the south was ruled by pharaohs from the ancient city of ...

On the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Iraqi American artist reflects on how ...