Art is a space where conversations collide in Maryam Yousif’s whimsical, cheeky and thoughtful three-dimensional ...
A wooden and leather shield used by a Roman soldier in battle Where it is from: Dura-Europos, Syria When it was made: Second century A.D. Related: Babylonian tablet preserves student's 4,000-year-old ...
Natufian spindle whorls from 12,000 years ago represent the earliest fast-spinning technology in the Levant, shedding light ...
Researchers from University of Glasgow have found origins of early governing institutions in Mesopotamia, which were based on ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sir John Marshall detailed discoveries in the Indus Valley in 1924, linking ancient Indian civilization with Sumerian culture ...
Tommy Driskill in the ancient city of Babylon. A trip to Iraq had been long on his radar ... Kurdistan region in the north — ...
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, ...