In prehistoric times, the civilisations of Egypt and Mesopotamia flourished to the west of India, with China to its east.

Scientists have found traces of ancient opiates in the residue lining an Egyptian alabaster vase, indicating that opiate use ...

An ancient alabaster vase from Yale’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opium, offering the strongest evidence yet ...

Archaeologists have discovered a royal needle-carved rock image in southern Iran's Marvdasht Plain. It is believed the image ...

Iran’s minister of cultural heritage, tourism and handicrafts said the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural ...

A little over 200 years ago, the Greeks began their war of independence from the Ottoman Empire, which had conquered most of ...

A 22-centimeter alabaster vase, inscribed to the Persian king Xerxes I, has revealed that narcotics were part of everyday ...

Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, derives its name from the Persian term for Monday, reflecting its origins as a weekly ...

From the ninth to the first centuries BC, in the period before the Roman empire, Etruscan culture flourished in present-day ...