Art is a space where conversations collide in Maryam Yousif’s whimsical, cheeky and thoughtful three-dimensional ...
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, ...
Artefacts from a Mesopotamian archaeological site suggest that people in the region founded and later rejected an early form ...
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 ...
Sir John Marshall detailed discoveries in the Indus Valley in 1924, linking ancient Indian civilization with Sumerian culture ...
Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.
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, ...
Trevor Van Damme receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving ...