Researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan. The research provides insights into regional heritage and fills gaps in knowledge about how ancient ...

Learn how environmental changes have humbled many of history’s most successful and dominant cultures.

In her short film Mesopotamia, TX, director/writer Lucy Gamades presents the chance meeting of two strangers (Megan Greener ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

Daniel Kennefick will preview his fall 2025 Honors College Signature Seminar and trace the evolution of eclipse prediction through 12 key historical examples.

Lapis lazuli, valued like gold, has a rich 6,000-year history. Its primary source is Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, where ...

From the bronze age to the Industrial Revolution and beyond, the discovery and development of new materials has been a ...

Astrology, the belief that the positions of celestial bodies influence earthly events and human lives, has been a pervasive ...

BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of ...

Prof Suresh Chander The Swastika is one of the oldest and most universally recognized symbols in human history, transcending ...