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

With nearly 60 cemeteries documented across more than 2,000 known Harappan sites, scholars say India’s ancient dead are not ...

Uruk, the world’s first metropolis and the birthplace of written language, was nourished by the Euphrates River, as was Babylon, ancient Mesopotamia’s grandest city. The fertile plain between the ...

A digital tool lets users explore the Roman Empire’s road network and, using historical data, estimate how long journeys between cities took 2,000 years ago. A Dutch engineer has reconstructed, with ...

The famous waterway began as two rivers, a new study suggests. Tectonic activity around five million years ago probably made them change course and merge, helping to birth the Fertile Crescent ...

It has been a long, relentless journey to the World Cup for Iraq’s centre-forward Aymen Hussein, who propelled his country to the tournament for the first time in 40 years when he scored a winning ...

Study reveals Euphrates River formed millions of years ago when ancient rivers merged due to tectonic activity, reshaping ...

New research has revealed insight into the evolution of this influential waterway, which may have been created when two ancient rivers coalesced.

Researchers analyzing ancient cuneiform tablets recently unveiled a 4,000-year-old beer receipt — offering a rare glimpse into Mesopotamian beer culture. The news was announced in a University of ...

In the middle of Laos, an ancient mystery bulges from the sweeping plains and intermittent forests of the Xiangkhoang Plateau. There, numbering in the thousands, vast stone jars – many empty and open ...