Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...

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

A temple that floats in the air. A pillar that refuses to touch the ground. Stones that balance in ways science can't explain ...

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

That enabled Mesopotamian rule to be personal and indeed ... of the transition from “nature” to man-made institutional structures suggests how land and credit relations evolved along similar ...

The irrigation network consists of over 200 primary canals, some of which stretch up to nine kilometers in length and are between two and five meters wide.

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

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

The origin story of C.S. Lewis' infamous Narnia in The Magician's Nephew is a blend of Christian inspiration and the power of ...

Archaeology often describes the rise of power and hierarchy in early Mesopotamia as a move from ... may point to a ranked age-based social structure, or possibly a symbolic reverence for youth ...