University students and archaeologists located an ancient Roman military camp beyond the empire’s northern frontier in the Netherlands. Photo from Constructing the Limes A team of university ...

Not only did Cyrus establish the Achaemenid dynasty, but he also implemented rules and structures that guided empires centuries later. He was such a cunning leader that he defeated the Lydian Empire ...

Science Ancient rocks tie Roman Empire’s collapse to a mini ice age ‘This climate shift may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.’ By Andrew Paul Published Apr 11, 2025 3:28 PM EDT ...

Ancient Wari leaders used psychedelic beer to forge alliances and expand their empire, new archaeological data suggests, revealing early social control through psychoactive substances.

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding light on the earliest known empire's complex bureaucracy.

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy. The ...

What does it say about a society when its scholars turn increasingly to studies of the downfall of civilizations, the end of empires, the concept of human ...

Lakhs of Akkadian inscriptions dating back to 3,500 BCE have been discovered in Mesopotamia, but there aren’t enough scholars alive to decipher even a fraction of these vast records of an empire.

Turkiye, which has recently made a splash in archaeological circles worldwide with groundbreaking discoveries, continues to unveil significant findings through year-round excavations, revealing traces ...

Another way the emotions of ancient Mesopotamians and modern humans differed was that modern humans tended to feel anger in their upper body, but the opposite was true for ancient Mesopotamians; they ...