These gingerbread tablets are SUPER DELICIOUS and the perfect ancient eat for something modern. The Epic of Gilgamesh is ...

HALSTEAD'S new banking hub is expected to open later this summer. In May, the UK's cash access and ATM network, LINK announced that Halstead would be the latest town in Essex to benefit from a new ...

In the early 20th century, architects and artists like Hugh Ferriss drew on the myths and monuments of ancient Babylon to imagine futuristic skylinesmelding ziggurats with modernism in a visionary ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

Whether it's your first pint or your hundredth pairing experiment, beer offers much more than meets the eye (or tastebuds).

The Sumerians lived in Mesopotamia from about 4500 to 1750 B.C.E., and developed a number of technologies that changed the ...

A 3,600-Year-Old Reed Boat Provides Clues to Early Urbanization in Mesopotamia By examining different materials buried along with the watercraft, experts could determine the age of the boat. By Paul .

Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality.

The Yale Jewish Lives series, which has volumes devoted to figures as diverse as Harry Houdini and Henrietta Szold, had a conspicuous gap in its library: an account of the first Jewish life.

THE great and inventive people who settled 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia, ... Two Minds. The statues uncovered at Nippur portray a cross section of Sumerian society.