Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

History | January 2022. At the Iraqi Site of Assur, Ancient History Stands at Risk of Destruction. In its time, the Assyrian capital faced waves of invasions and abandonment.

Arsia Mons, an ancient Martian volcano, was captured before dawn on May 2, 2025, by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter while the spacecraft was studying the Red Planet’s atmosphere, which ...

Spanish Muslims retrace ancient Hajj route on horseback from Andalusia to Mecca. Abdelkader Harkassi Aidi, Tarek Rodriguez and Abdallah Rafael Hernandez Mancha set out from southern Spain in ...

Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life. Accessory maker Genki has a whole host of Switch 2 accessories on the market to support the console's launch, and the excellently named Attack Vector is one ...

The lightweight, game-changing solution for AI memory at scale. Memvid revolutionizes AI memory management by encoding text data into videos, enabling lightning-fast semantic search across millions of ...

Nature - A global analysis reveals that most carbon dioxide emitted by rivers derives not from modern plant material, as was thought, but from ancient, buried carbon.

Ancient Trees, Dwindling in the Wild, Thrive on Sacred Ground Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost 2,000 years old.

These Dead Sea Scrolls include the oldest known copies of some Old Testament books, and other ancient Jewish texts. Scholars believed the scrolls were hidden to protect them from the Romans, ...

Yeatts Mewborne Jones, of Arlington, Virginia, passed away on Saturday, May 24, 2025, on a scuba diving vacation in Monterey, California, at the age of 55. He was born September 27, 1969, in ...

When Ancient Greek Trick Inspired Modern Military Tactic Ukraine launched its first major drone strike in Siberia since the war began, shortly after peace talks with Russia resumed in Istanbul.

Centuries-old Chinese artifacts have been damaged after a tourist visiting the Museum of the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang in Shaanxi, China, leapt over a guardrail and into a pit. On ...