In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, ...

This text is adapted from Michael Hudson’s foreword to At the Origins of Politics by Giorgio Buccellati, and this excerpt was produced by Human ...

That enabled Mesopotamian rule to be personal and indeed ... private lending (often by royal or temple officials acting on their own account) became the major initial way to obtain the labor ...

The largest temple of Ancient Greece was at the mercy of the masked men who caused riots after the peaceful gatherings for ...

Archaeologists say they've found "the very first material evidence of the very first empire in the world" in 4,000-year-old ...

Watch live as a total lunar eclipse flushes the moon red across the Western Hemisphere. The Earth will cast a shadow that ...

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Many of the early civilizations, from Mesopotamia to Egypt and Ancient Greece, adorned temple walls and even everyday ...

“She made her first appearance in Sumerian mythology as a demon-goddess ... then the industrialists from Temple City, the merchants from Galant, and the artists from Akkadia.

‘And remember that it was published in the Zeitschrift, the temple of Mesopotamian science,’ he said. ‘Since the decipherment I have discovered new enemies and new allies.’ At some point in the early ...

Most secularists believe that these religious apocalyptic visions of the future are absurd, although many secularists themselves fervently believe that artificial intelligence, run away genetic ...