Director and producer Professor Martin Worthington said Sumerian 'is probably the world’s first written language and died out around 2000 BCE' ...

Five Nobel Peace laureates—King, Obama, Chief Luthuli, Nelson Mandela, and the Dalai Lama—have all cited Gandhi as an ...

A 3,000-year-old map found at The British Museum could lead us to the real resting place of Noah’s Ark, with clues hidden in ...

Italian archaeologists working at the sanctuary of Tas-Silg on Malta have discovered an agate fragment with a Middle Babylonian cuneiform inscription dating to the thirteenth or fourteenth century B.C ...

"Double dyeing achieved a sophisticated imitation that could easily pass for authentic royal purple ," Dr. Sukenik explains. "Madder and woad were widely available, far cheaper, and far easier to work ...

A clay fragment no larger than a postcard sat untouched in a Baghdad storeroom for ages. Now its words sing again, thanks to artificial intelligence that stitched it to 30 other scattered fragments ...

More than three millennia ago, an ancient map was carved into clay — and it matches perfectly with the Mesopotamian city of ...

Curiosity about the past isn’t just academic. It’s a way of understanding who we are and how we became this version of ...

Over 3,800 years ago, the ancient Babylonian “Code of Hammurabi” included regulations on loan interest rates. Inscribed in cuneiform on a basalt stele, the text specifies that the maximum annual ...

Have you ever wondered what it felt like to walk through the bustling markets of ancient Rome or stand beneath the towering pyramids of Egypt? These eight carefully selected books offer something ...

What we know about Babylonia is mostly derived from clay tablets. Tens of thousands of these cuneiform texts have been found in the last century and for some periods these tell us a great deal about ...

Conservation teams in the UNESCO-registered Susa have completed a project to safeguard and protect 253 architectural remains ...