British Museum researchers have gained great understanding of the people, their beliefs and dominance in the region through researching the tablet. They say that Mesopotamia ia at the bottom middle of ...
The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.
At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched ...
It’s also a possibility that some civilizations rotted from the inside through a general system collapse. Scholars have noted ...
A new study by Dr. Linda Evans and her colleagues from Macquarie University, Australia, published in the Journal of Egyptian ...
From the tiny piccolo to the gigantic Midas, there are various wine bottle sizes used worldwide today. A certified sommelier ...
Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site ...
Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking prehistoric imagery to the inception of written communication. Researchers from ...
A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.
Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site ...
Declassified 1970- U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archaeological team to what they believe is the site of ...
Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman has been posthumously awarded the rank of general.