A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

University College London, the University of Central Lancashire, Ege University, and other institutions have discovered that ...

However, it was the Romans who fully embraced and refined the arch, turning it into a fundamental element of their engineering: by improving materials — especially through the development of concrete ...

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DNA study of Bronze Age tombs in Turkey reveals teenage human sacrifices, challenging ideas about early Mesopotamian society.

At the threshold of written history, when the first civilizations began to consolidate in Mesopotamia and Anatolia, the world ...

The mystery of a pyramid structure that was found under the sea off the coast of the Azores Islands in 2013 is still puzzling ...

In the second part of his address, Burns shifted the focus from Syria’s monuments to its current political tensions. He ...

The U.S. military did major damage to the site of one of the wonders of the ancient world while converting it into a base, the United Nations said in a new report. The site of the Hanging Gardens of ...

Adam is depicted with distinctly European features—fair skin, —reflecting the aesthetics and ideals of Renaissance Italy rather than the historical realities of biblical Mesopotamia. Michelangelo, ...

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Beneath the ruins of Eridu, archaeologists have uncovered an extensive ancient irrigation system that once sustained early Mesopotamian agriculture. This network of canals, preserved for millennia, ...