Recent discoveries challenge ideas of a sharp divide between the haves and have-nots in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting a larger middle class than previously thought.

The world’s oldest map, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, may reveal the location of an […] ...

The artifacts, which included amulets and a sculpture, smelled like earth when they spilled out of his suitcases, according ...

Are these ancient symbols complete words, part of words, or part of sentences? The solution will earn the successful ...

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Urine is the result of a fascinating and complex system, of which the kidneys are the star, that evolved to keep our internal ...

They might represent "proto-writing," like early Mesopotamian clay tablets that recorded mercantile transactions. They might even be more like medieval European heraldry, representing a particular ...

The Indus Valley civilization, also called the Harappan civilization, is seen by experts as on a par with the better-known ones of Egypt, Mesopotamia and China. One of the earliest, it flourished ...