Documents and genealogies are helpful resources, but personal memories are invaluable keys to understanding your family ...

It’s important to use the right words when writing about writing. Scholars studying the history of it distinguish between pre-writing symbols used to mark objects and more precise marks that establish ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a ...

Antigua was built on sugarcane—venture around the island and you'll spot many of the 112 mills that dot the hillsides. Dating back to 1651, the first sugar mill at Betty's Hope is pretty emotive ...

Some of the symbols on these cylinder seals correspond to those used in proto-cuneiform, a form of proto-writing used in Mesopotamia. The finding indicates that the invention of writing in ...

He also assured the nation that the government would allocate the necessary resources to the Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda to pursue justice in what he described as a sorrowful chapter ...

The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — in present-day Iraq — in the A.D. 630s between Arab Muslims and the army of the Sassanid Persian dynasty during a period of Muslim expansion.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, (CMC) — Police are at the home of an independent legislator, Asot Michael, who was reportedly found dead in a pool of blood at his house in St John’s, Antigua on ...

The finding reinforces an idea proposed in earlier research: that cuneiform script — which was developed in early Mesopotamia around 3100 B.C. and is thought to be the earliest writing system ...

Another study published this year suggests that the meteor shower is depicted on a stone pillar at Göbekli Tepe, a 12,000-year-old temple complex in Upper Mesopotamia, present-day Turkey.

The best time to visit Antigua is from May to November, the island's offseason. Rates are cheapest at this time, and although there is a threat of hurricanes (Antigua sits in a region of the ...

The Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda (RPFAB) has mounted a full-scale homicide investigation following the death of prominent Member of Parliament for St Peter, 54-year-old Asot Michael ...