The Sumerians created the world's first cities, developed the earliest known writing system, and laid the foundations for ...

A team of historians, scientists and engineers has developed a portable X-ray scanner to study 4,000-year-old letters encased ...

Western civilisation is deeply rooted in the ancient Middle East where agriculture, writing, law, medicine, philosophy, and ...

Uruk, the world’s first metropolis and the birthplace of written language, was nourished by the Euphrates River, as was Babylon, ancient ​Mesopotamia’s grandest city. The fertile plain between the ...

Many archaeologists believe the famed tower from the Book of Genesis may have had a real historical counterpart in ancient Mesopotamia. The Book of Genesis tells of an ancient city with a tower that ...

The famous waterway began as two rivers, a new study suggests. Tectonic activity around five million years ago probably made ...

Until just over 100 years ago, nothing was known about one of the largest and most technologically advanced civilizations of ...

The Indo-European family of languages is the largest in the world, with over 150 languages and 3 billion speakers today. The ...

When I decided to write a book on the history of maritime trade, I had no academic position to defend and no orthodoxy to ...

There comes a moment in every empire's reign when the maps stop making sense. Not necessarily because the borders move. But because there comes a time ...

Students at the Sycamore Youth Center are spending this week traveling thousands of years into the past through stories of ...

How the drowning mud of World War One overcame both Rebecca’s great uncles.