On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

During the Early Bronze Age, the Southern Levant's inability to support mass sheep herding left the region lagging behind ...

Clues such as the presence of writing and monumental architecture support this hypothesis, further increasing its historical significance. The work at Kurd Qaburstan is not only expanding our ...

Mesopotamia, with its dense network of ancient ... records of other city-states," Earley-Spadoni says. "The presence of writing, monumental architecture, and other administrative artifacts in ...

THE great and inventive people who settled 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia ... The Sumerians introduced writing, and under their rule the arts flourished. Their temples—dedicated to such gods ...

The earliest-known writing dates back to around 3500 - 3100 BC in Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq, where cuneiform script was developed. Egyptians were also developing hieroglyphic writing around ...

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

Authoring a book or editing a volume are among the most consequential professional achievements in an academic's life. In ...

With a lot of focus on anti-Semitism in the world today, the term has often been mistaken as exclusive to Jewish people.

Ancient myths have influenced civilizations and can be mapped to zodiac signs. Each sign aligns with a mythological pantheon reflecting its traits, li ...

Its script is described as ‘the most important system of writing that is undeciphered’ by renowned ... the Indus Valley had trade links with the early cities Mesopotamia (Picture: ...