Someone asked to say where they feel anger today may indicate somewhere in their upper body or even their hands, but ancient Mesopotamians felt “heated”, “enraged”, or “angry” in their ...

The inhabitants of Mesopotamia must have known grief, fear, love and awe – but they didn’t necessarily think about them in the same way we do. An analysis of cuneiform texts shows that these ...

When the moon turned red thousands of year ago, the ancient Mayans and Mesopotamians feared that something monstrous and evil was eating the moon. They would shout at the night sky to try and fend ...

Although the ancients Mesopotamians were aware of the concept of chimeras and regularly used them in everyday art, their understanding of the genetic mechanisms involved in chimerism and mosaicism ...