Margot Robbie recently poured one out for Damien Chazelle’s Babylon and wondered if it could go down as a cult classic. We ...
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, ...
Hellenic travelers compiled the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, showcasing architectural marvels from ancient ...
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 ...
(Archaeological evidence from the region suggests that some form of the paste may have existed as much as 4,000 years ago, in ancient Babylon.) Fast-forward to ... so popular that it spawned a ...
Electrifying performances by Volker Bruch and Liv Lisa Fries, a solid ensemble cast, and great music too – a stone-cold ...
Two years after protests against Iran’s strict dress codes rocked the nation, a new “chastity and hijab” law was passed this week by Iran’s hardline parliament and approved by the Guardian Council, ...
The Trojan War was one of the most significant and famous events in Greek history – at least, as far as the ancient Greeks ...
Four LMU researchers have each been awarded a Consolidator Grant. Their projects deal with the statistics of social inequality, the cuneiform culture of Mesopotamia, the detailed investigation of ...
To define cultural heritage, Ratzlaff took a global perspective, discussing the tangible, intangible, movable and immovable.
Estimates of the Jewish population in the empire range from 4.5 to 10 million ... may have been a gladiator before turning to ...