People likely worshipped together, blending spiritual and daily life. The art, like wall paintings and decorated bull skulls, ...

As the International Space Station soared 257 miles above Lake Michigan, NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit captured this long-exposure photograph of city lights streaking ...

In Between Symbols and Language For this study, researchers started 6,000 years ago, in the Mesopotamian city of Uruk, which is located in what is now Iraq. Uruk was a major trade hub, reaching as far ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Share CAIRO (AP) — Archeologists from Egypt and the United States unearthed an ancient tomb with 11 sealed ...

Al-Natah was still small compared to cities in Mesopotamia or Egypt during the period. But in these vast expanses of desert, it appears there was "another path towards urbanization" than such ...

Researchers believe they have found a tunic that once belonged to Alexander the Great among artifacts in the royal tombs in Vergina, Greece, which has led to debate in the archeological field.

Michela Mariani receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust and is affiliated with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH) and the ...

Developed in its classic form in Babylon, entrail divination was practised throughout ancient Mesopotamia, the written history of which spans from the 3rd millennium BC to the 1st century AD.