Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

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 ...

The government of Tamil Nadu, a state in India, has announced a $1 million reward for anyone who can successfully decipher the Indus script, one of the greatest unsolved linguistic mysteries of the ...

First, in parallel with human cultural influences spreading out from the early cities of Mesopotamia we see sheep genomes moving west within the Fertile Crescent around 7,000 years ago.

That’s not an attractive drink, he says, but it is an environment amenable to early prebiotic life and one that was present much earlier in the solar system’s history than previously thought.

This unique degree programme offers training in an unparalleled range of ancient languages and their associated history, culture and textual traditions. Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin ...

The Sterkfontein excavation site, which exposes the ancient deposits that once formed underground and contain Australopithecus fossils. The fossil-bearing red sediments clearly contrast with the grey ...

This time there are more major discoveries, including a private spa complex in the home of a wealthy resident who enjoyed the finer things in life ... on full display. Ancient spoons also ...

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Astronomy and astrology were deeply intertwined in ancient civilizations ... early scientific thought. In Mesopotamia (c. 3500 BCE – 539 BCE), particularly in Babylon, astronomy was integral to their ...

The incoming First Family is expected to return to the White House as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take the oath of office for a second time on Inauguration Day, which will be held on ...

Women were excluded from public life in ancient Greece, including all formal political positions. However, there is evidence that through their close familial ties to men in power, elite women ...