Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

In ancient Mesopotamia, bulls were powerful symbols of fertility, strength, and abundance. Bulls were depicted in religious rituals and temple art being closely related to gods like Enlil and Adad ...

Bloomsbury Auctions/BNPSThis 5,000-year-old tablet depicting beer-making and a signed sales transaction was sold for $230,000. A wealthy American collector purchased an ancient Sumerian tablet for ...

Grimmer Construction, of Highland, is replacing ancient cast iron four-inch water ... Snake Flats is one of the oldest parts of Hebron. Uzelac’s home is 100 years old, she said.

A fossil trove uncovered in Wyoming is providing some of the best examples yet of an ancient species of alligator-sized amphibians. But while paleontologists describe the specimens as ...

Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of an ancient biblical battle ... Ten Lost Tribes of Israel were not all expelled to Mesopotamia in the 7th century B.C. and actually may ...

Proof of an ancient garden, consistent with biblical scripture, has emerged at the holiest site in Christianity — and an archaeologist says "many surprises" from the site are in the works.

As someone who’s spent years researching the economy of Ancient Rome, it all feels a shade familiar. In fact, tariffs were also used in Ancient Rome, and for some of the reasons that governments ...

Archaeologists have analyzed a pair of copper cymbals from Bronze Age Oman, suggesting a shared musical tradition connected cultures and helped facilitate trade around the Arabian Gulf. Music is a ...

Jacek Ukowski and Katarzyna Herdzik, the metal detectorists who discovered the dagger Museum of the History of Kamień Land After a recent storm, two metal detectorists went searching for treasure ...