The Sumerians of Mesopotamia are considered the world's oldest civilisation, dating back to around 4000 BCE. The Sumerians ...

Through her artwork – over 120 exceptional paintings embellishing the text – Grima brings to life the ancient landscapes ... Her father, Rish-Shamash, a Sumerian astronomer priest, motivated ...

Life in these ... follow Shia Islam. This ancient community is among the world’s oldest living cultures, with roots stretching back six thousand years to ancient Sumer, the earliest known ...

NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for ...

Bring the family to The Getty Villa and you may feel as if you’ve stepped back in time and onto another continent. As you wander, you’ll observe 4,000 years of ancient culture. The Villa itself is ...

The view of Valentine’s Day as a day for lovers can be traced back to two medieval poets who stood up for romance and the ...

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...

In the journal Nature Communications, Montana State University scientists in the College of Agriculture highlight fresh ...

“We tried to be largely chronological, which is to say, we began in ancient Sumer, and then we did Egypt ... Their last unseen piece was “Still Life with Checked Tablecloth,” by Juan ...