Hellenic travelers compiled the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, showcasing architectural marvels from ancient ...
Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across ...
Cylinder seals from Ur, c. 2450 BC, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, USA In the first article of this series, I provided a brief historical overview of the Neo-Assyrian, Urartian, and Achaemenid empires, ...
During these centuries, a common, unspoken language of symbols often reflected the region's shifting geopolitics, allegiances ...
San Casciano dei Bagni in Tuscany has revealed extraordinary archaeological finds, including bronze statues, coins, and ...
Researchers Decipher Writings on 4000-Year-Old Babylonian Cuneiform Tablets, Say The Messages Predicted 'Danger' Researchers ...
Some questions are hard to answer and always have been. Does my beloved love me back? Should my country go to war? Who stole ...
A 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet from ancient Sumer reveals a student's math error on a triangle's area, marking a ...
A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student calculated the area of a triangle incorrectly 4,000 years ...
AI has analyzed a 2000-year-old burned parchment, and found mention of the generals and usurpers who succeeded Alexander the ...
The New Arab revisits the ancient cities of the Middle East, highlighting the destruction caused by war, looting, and neglect ...
MindYourDecisions] presents a Babylonian tablet dating back to around 1800 BC that shows that the hypotenuse of a unit square is the square root of two or 1.41421. How did they know that? We ...