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 ...

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

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

Hearing that flood story clinched it for me — the Old Testament of the Christian bible is just as mythological as the Greek or Mesopotamian gods (everything is a remix) — and I’ve been solidly atheist ...

New discoveries at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan by University of Central Florida (UCF) associate professor Tiffany Earley-Spadoni and her research team are offering valuable ...

In fantasy manhwa, gods are often used for world-building or conflict, with many depicted as unseen influencers. Gods can be integral parts of the plot in some manhwa, interacting directly as ...

Clay tablets at Kurd Qaburstan reveal ancient Mesopotamian culture Artefacts hint at urban life in the Middle Bronze Age city Findings challenge perceptions of ...

In this short, the British Museum curator Sébastien Rey untangles an intricate archaeological puzzle some six millennia in the making. First, Rey introduces viewers to an excavation site of the ...