Mesopotamian warfare was waged between rival city-states such as Ur, Lagash and Umma during earlier periods, and later ...

From tail-wagging agents of battle to divine deities, ancient Mesopotamia’s civilisations saw dogs as more than just pets.

Kings and Generals’ historical animated series returns with a deep dive into the origins of commerce in the ancient world.

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the full genome of a 4,800-year-old Egyptian man. The DNA reveals North African ...

Introduction History is not simply the story of what happened mdash;it is the memory of how power was used, values encoded, ...

That geological legacy laid the groundwork for lapis’ role in adornment, which stretches back to antiquity. As early as the third millennium BC, Mesopotamian rulers carved cylinder seals and ...

Modern Muslim tyrannies always lose. A one-by-one survey of five of the Muslim nations whose commonality is hating Israel: ...

The same force that paved the way for the Greek Golden Age sowed the seeds of its political collapse: individualism.

In the early 20th century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel ...

Through the centuries, historical sites are bound to disappear. Whether due to climate change, political turmoil, or even grave robbers, there are many reasons why discoveries at notable locations are ...

The rediscovered lines also give rare voice to Babylon’s women, especially its priestesses. It describes them as devout and ...