Babylonian astronomers made meticulous records of planetary motions, eclipses, and the positions of the stars. These observations were primarily used for astrological purposes, as Babylonians believed ...

Brutus magazine (Feb 1) celebrates the museum – and why not? A museum is itself a celebration – of art, of genius, of life, ...

In 1945, the victorious Allied powers gathered in San Francisco to draft a charter for the United Nations, the foundation of a new global order that would make another world war impossible. The ...

You can get in touch with Jess by emailing j.thomson@newsweek.com. A massive asteroid the size of the Empire State Building is zooming towards our planet this weekend. The asteroid, named 2024 ...

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I eventually became way more interested in industry finance, and those who balanced the money questions of making art. As a Minnesotan ... state of the Pohlad Empire and why the sale announcement ...

Credit: JEHAN SHERKO / CC BY-SA 4.0 Archaeologists have found evidence suggesting that Kurd Qaburstan, a site located in the Erbil region of northeastern Iraq, may be the lost city of Qabra, an ...

Another question is whether Kurd Qaburstan could be identified as the ancient city of Qabra, mentioned in Babylonian monuments like the Stele of Dadusha. Clues such as the presence of writing and ...

The far right is celebrating what it views as a clear signal from the X owner and Donald Trump associate, who made the gestures onstage Monday. Elon Musk’s former employees are trying to use ...

For example, the siege of Tyre by Babylonian forces lasted for thirteen years ... It was quite rich and powerful and could actually be described as a small empire. Troy was closely associated with ...

The British Museum houses around 130,000 clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia written in cuneiform script between 3200 b.c. and the first century a.d. Since so few scholars can read the languages ...