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 ...

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 ...

Authorities in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu are offering a reward of as much as $1 million (€960,000) for whoever can decipher a 5,300-year-old Indus language. For more than a century, linguists and ...

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

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

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

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

The news that a Maltese agricultural item, cheeselets made from sheep's milk, is getting the status of an original product, on a European basis, was very welcome. As a matter of fact, many speeches ...

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: ...