The earliest form of the signature came from ancient Iraq in the form of cylinder seals. Mesopotamians, the ancient ...

Rather than being a recent cultural development, kissing may have been practised by other early humans like Neanderthals and ...

AN ADVANCED civilisation that ruled large swathes of the Middle East 4,000 years ago may have been wiped out by a spot of bad weather. The Akkadian Empire flourished during the Bronze Age and new ...

Researchers trace the origins of the first kiss to early primates 20 million years ago, revealing the deep roots of human ...

A 4,600-year-old skeleton discovered in a sealed tomb in Nuwayrat, Egypt, has revealed the first genetic evidence of ancient migration between Egypt and Mesopotamia. Scientists sequenced the man's ...

A new study that examines how kissing evolved suggests that ape ancestors and early humans like Neanderthals probably locked ...

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Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik spent over 20 years as a science journalist, specializing in U.S. life science policy and global scientific career issues. He began his career in ...

It's commonplace now, with couples to be found smooching in seemingly every public place. But French kissing may have started for the first time 4,500 years ago in the Middle East. That is the ...

The B-52's weren't prepared to capitalize on their earliest successes. A 1979 self-titled album and 1980's Wild Planet had used up all of their pre-existing songs. They'd have to come up with ...

Iraq’s dream of reaching the World Cup is alive—but it’s an uphill climb for the Lions of Mesopotamia. This is a team built ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Serdar Yalçin, Macalester College (THE CONVERSATION) The earliest form of the ...