The world's first empire arose from the Middle East's Fertile Crescent — and created a blueprint that other conquering rulers would follow for millennia. About 4,500 years ago, Sargon of Akkad forged ...

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 ...

The Middle East is considered the birthplace of civilisation, where the first large settlements were formed more than 9,000 years ago. While advanced societies developed separately in several places ...

Serge Koussevitzky, brilliant, provocative conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra startled conservative ears last week when he gave the mad, barbaric incantation of Prokofiev’s “Sept, Us sont sept ...