For the king, the aim was to make “submission not just tolerable but actually desirable.” That enabled Mesopotamian rule to ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the first-ever Bronze Age settlement in North Africa’s Maghreb region, proving that local ...

TEHRAN - Ten ancient artifacts from the Bronze Age have been officially registered in Iran’s National List of Movable ...

The Magan civilisation, often associated with the region of modern-day Oman, played a significant role in the trade networks ...

M.K. Stalin has announced a $1 million prize to decipher the enigmatic Indus Valley script. Scholars believe the script, ...

Recently, historian Dr. Esmé James shared what's essentially a 4,000-year-old text message from a teenager to his mother.

For 150 years, people have tried to decipher mysterious symbols written by an advanced civilization believed to rival ancient ...

Long histories of all kinds are at the heart of Selena Wisnom's The Library of Ancient Wisdom, an absorbing exploration of the culture of Bronze Age Mesopotamia, via the abundant records its people ...

Archaeologists found that children in the Ebla Kingdom mass-produced pottery but also made their own creative figurines.

The analysis of genetic heritage also reveals a pattern of significant migrations during the Bronze Age and the early Iron Age ... In the heart of ancient Mesopotamia, a group of researchers has ...