On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

I'm in the Asia study room of the British Museum and in front of me is a small ... It ranked as a contemporary and an equal with Ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia ... and it had been totally forgotten.

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

The world’s oldest map unlocks secrets from 3,000 years ago revealing how our ancestors understood the world. The Babylonian ...

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In my youth, I was awfully down on the Neo-Assyrian Empire. My first exposure to it was during a visit to the British Museum. There, around the corner from the Elgin Marbles, is a long stretch of ...

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...

The rise of pastoralist peoples in the Eurasian steppes and their westward spread some 5,000 years ago may have been fuelled ...

Vessel supported by two rams, 2600 to 2500 BCE, object number 1989.281.3, Gift of Norbert Shcimmel Trust, 1989, open access Met Museum ... from the early cities of Mesopotamia we see sheep ...

Hidden beneath the sands of Kuwait lie the stories and secrets of ancient civilizations, offering a glimpse into the ...

The Rassam Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder containing cuneiform inscriptions that describe the reign and military ...