Around 700 BC, the Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II began building a new capital city, named after himself, in the desert of ...
Art is a space where conversations collide in Maryam Yousif’s whimsical, cheeky and thoughtful three-dimensional ...
A ncient humans came together 35,000 years ago in the deepest, darkest part of a cave in what is now western Galilee, Israel, ...
The tablet could predate the earliest known evidence of writing in the Caucasus region by over a thousand years, hinting at a ...
Natufian spindle whorls from 12,000 years ago represent the earliest fast-spinning technology in the Levant, shedding light ...
Ancient Mesopotamia felt love in their livers and anger in their feet, revealed a recent analysis of one million words of the ...
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, ...
The Mercator Projection, Ptolemy’s ‘Geographia’, the Fra Mauro Map, and even Google Maps have all shaped how we experience ...
Researchers Decipher Writings on 4000-Year-Old Babylonian Cuneiform Tablets, Say The Messages Predicted 'Danger' Researchers have deciphered the inscription on a set of four clay tablets they ...
A 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet from ancient Sumer reveals a student's math error on a triangle's area, marking a ...
New scientific methods have allowed archaeologists to learn more about how the enigmatic Nebra Sky Disc was manufactured in ...
It’s at least as likely that Jews took to the arena in ancient Rome as it was that gladiators fought ... has argued that the ...