What is the origin of Easter eggs? Do they derive from authentic Christian traditions, or do they come from ancient pagan practices?

Stal Gallery opened its latest exhibition on 13 April in Muscat, presenting “Gilgamesh: Symbols and Connotations” by ...

Almost 4,000 years ago, an unknown scholar in ancient Mesopotamia wrote the first known book on a series of clay tablets. The ...

I hate to be predictable. It’s a good way to lose people’s attention. But there are two column subjects you know I’m going to ...

Five millennia ago, Bronze Age people in Mesopotamia built elaborate stone tombs full of spectacular grave goods and human sacrifices. Researchers are unsure of the meaning of this ritual, but a new ...

The modern Easter egg was created in 1873 by British confectioners J.S. Fry & Sons who produced the first hollow chocolate ...

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This year is not only the 1,700th anniversary of the first ecumenical council of the church, but also one of the years when ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

This type of contract persisted at least through the Code of Hammurabi days in Mesopotamia. In 500 B.C. Greece, the first options (remember, an option is like a future, but there is no obligation ...

It was at the start of World War I that Britain first occupied Mesopotamia ... the boundaries of the new Iraq—a seventh century name meaning “well-rooted country”—largely mirrored the ...