Archaeologists are unsure why unrelated teenagers were buried in an elaborate Bronze Age tomb but think their age may be a ...

Singer-actress Uhm Jung-hwa is among Korean celebrities to have embraced a grain 2,000-plus years old, as farro recipes flood ...

Five thousand years ago, Bronze Age societies in Mesopotamia constructed elaborate stone tombs filled with remarkable grave ...

This region of Turkey was once part of ancient Mesopotamia. Several stone tombs were discovered a few years back, and the ...

This island was colonized by the Greeks during the time of Alexander the Great, who named it "Icarus" because of its ...

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern Mesopotamia, shedding new light on early farming practices. The research ...

Easter is an important day for those of the Christian faith. It can fall on a different date from year to year, depending on the moon cycle.

Recovered from an ancient shipwreck off the coast of Antikythera, this bronze device is considered one of the most advanced ...

For example, the Proto-Cuneiform script of ancient Mesopotamia, written on clay tablets ... For example, the Proto-Cuneiform script, Linear A script and Cretan Hieroglyphs mainly used ideograms ...

Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality.

Astrology has been a common thread through the decades and empires. This generation has taken the stars down to Earth and not ...