A clay tablet, hidden away in museum archives for decades, has revealed a remarkable story of daily life in ancient ...

A 4,000-year-old clay tablet is believed to record the world's oldest known customer complaint from ancient Mesopotamia. A ...

Cylinder seals were far more than ancient signatures. They fused art, power, and belief into objects that revealed exactly ...

Berossus was a Babylonian priest writing in the third century BC who produced one of the most influential histories of ...

The excavation of the ancient city of Ur revealed wealthy, powerful rulers. There’s a compelling case they were actually women. What if we’ve underestimated the power women held in ancient Mesopotamia ...

From ancient dice and royal game boards to modern digital platforms, the Middle East's long relationship with games of chance ...

From a cheeky slingshot to Paul's letters and information on King Nebuchadnezzar, new research is offering insight into some of the Bible's best-known stories.

Archaeologists in France have uncovered five rare iron shackles at a 2,300-year-old Celtic site in Allonnes, indicating the ...

The ancient Maya are renowned for their mathematical mastery as calendar creators, pioneering astronomers, and pyramid ...

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Some books record the decline of civilisations from a safe and scholarly distance. Rajiv Dogra’s How Nations Fail isn’t one of them. He pulls you into the wreck ...