Art is a space where conversations collide in Maryam Yousif’s whimsical, cheeky and thoughtful three-dimensional ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Sir John Marshall detailed discoveries in the Indus Valley in 1924, linking ancient Indian civilization with Sumerian culture ...
How much do you know about this iconic culture? Take our quiz to find out. Ancient Egypt is famous for its pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs. At times throughout its thousands of years of history ...
Tommy Driskill in the ancient city of Babylon. A trip to Iraq had been long on his radar ... Kurdistan region in the north — ...
Archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam discovered the tablet in 1882 in Sippar, an ancient Babylonian city in present-day Iraq ... on the tablet tells of the ancient Babylonians' beliefs and culture. The tiny ...
The Philadelphia naturalist Jacob Green exulted that “even the remains of Babylon and Egypt” were ... a “more macabre traffic” — that of ancient human skulls. Hildreth and his colleagues ...
Numerous artistic treasures from or inspired by Greece are housed in Paris museums. Undoubtedly, the foundation of Western civilization is rooted in ancient Greece, and, whether architecture, ...