CLOSING IN ON A PHARAOH’S TOMB
rchaeologists excavating in the Egyptian royal necropolis of Deir el-Bahari, on the west bank of the Nile, believe they have found the long-sought location of the tomb of
Searching For lost Cities
Iraq The Akkadian Empire (ca. 2340–2198 B.C.) represented something entirely new in human history: a dynasty that conquered and ruled over a vast territory, incorporating people of different ethnicities who were forced to adopt its ways. At its heigh
