Until the introduction of telephones, pigeons were used for communication commercially, and in war times, under the clever ...

Eaten on its own, a date is a nutritious nibble that sates sweet tooths. Used in cooking and baking, it's a shapeshifter with transformative powers, effortlessly lending richness and depth to sweet ...

Decoding Musical Taste Of the myriad topics I get to consider in my obsessive research into the alchemy of our musical taste, ...

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

Bronze Age Europeans earned and spent money in much the same way as we do today, indicating that the origins of the “market economy” are far more ancient than expected. That is the ...

At the same time, there were other aspects of my family background that were considerably ... Dating back to around 2000 BCE in Mesopotamia and the steppes of Central Asia, horses were harnessed ...

For scholars seeking to learn about the social and cultural histories of Mesopotamia, primary sources regarding ... The comprehensiveness of background information and historical documents and maps ...

A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, a researcher at the ...