The Akkadian Empire is thought to be the oldest empire in recorded history, but there is still much we do not know about its people or the figures who established it. Image credit: Eric de ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding light on the earliest known empire's complex bureaucracy. View on euronews ...

Our Fragile Moment Michael Mann PublicAffairs, $30. Over four millennia ago, in the final days of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, a drought swept over the region, afflicting lands as far away ...

History's first recorded empire was the Akkadians, established by a man called Sargon in around the 24th century BCE. The Semitic Akkadian peoples would establish the modus operandi for the way ...

While the Akkadian empire collapsed in 2137 B.C., Enheduanna’s poems continued to be copied for centuries, as part of the standard training of scribes. By about 500 B.C., Enheduanna was ...

Transgender history includes folks who thrived as kings and queens, fought in wars, ... A bas-relief sculpture of the Goddess Ishtar on an Akkadian Empire seal, circa 2350–2150 BCE.

A recent TikTok trend shows that men think about the Roman Empire more often than expected. Amy Briggs, editor-in-chief of National Geographic History Magazine, reveals why it still resonates.

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The Roman Empire may have fallen 1500 years ago, but if you’re one of the apparent 25% of the Western populace who thinks about it on a regular basis, it still feels pretty relevant today.