Social media may be awash with recipes, but book fans cite their appreciation for high-quality narratives and photography in ...

Researchers analyzing ancient pottery from Northern Mesopotamia have identified what may be the world's earliest botanical art. These finely painted vessels, produced by the Halafian culture, feature ...

Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured ...

The Assyrian right to their ancestral land in Mesopotamia does not derive from being a numerical majority today, but from an unbroken historical, cultural, linguistic, and spiritual presence that ...

We know perfectly well how humans were able to domesticate dogs. From wolves more terrifying than those in fairy tales to ...

Archaeologists working in the depths of Kateřinská Cave have made a series of remarkable discoveries that challenge our understanding of ancient human activity in Central Europe. Recent excavations ...

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

Mention “perfume” and one might first envision fragrant liquids in fancy flacons. Yet the name itself, derived from the Latin ...

A new international award known as the “Humanity Civilization Award” was launched by the World Daming Foundation in Hong Kong ...

These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him wearing a ...

Restricting Tehran’s growth and water use — however politically difficult — would be more prudent than trying to engineer ...

Dozens of research articles from 1999–2024 mention early Babylonians using fingerprint biometrics, despite no evidence ...