Ancient Tigris River tides, not royal canals, powered early farming and helped spark the first cities in Mesopotamia.

The answer depends on how you define a museum, but it's safe to say humans have been saving and displaying relics of their ...

Pax Romana takes the long-running city builder and sim series to ancient Rome and pre-Britain Albion, just before the fall of ...

A pint of history is being served at La Canibal brewery in Madrid as a craft ale inspired by a 5,000-year-old Sumerian recipe ...

Mining stocks are outpacing some of the world’s hottest assets, but their rapid rise is raising a familiar question: can the ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani tells Newsweek his vision of making his country a global trade, investment and ...

Something I have been interested in is trying to get a better understanding of what life was like for Maori in New Zealand before Abel Tasman made contact in 1642. By then Maori had been in New ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the last 50 years.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump created confusion on Tuesday when he said that food assistance aid for millions of Americans will be given out only when the federal government shutdown ends, as ...

Long before electricity, the people of ancient Persia engineered towering windcatchers, structures that funneled desert air into homes, palaces, and temples. Archaeological studies of Yazd and ancient ...

UR/BABYLON, Iraq (Reuters) -Iraqi officials are sounding the alarm to save monuments of the cradle of civilisation, with thousands of years of history at risk of disappearing as Iraq's ancient ...

Cuneiform writing from Sumer. Credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons The world’s first urban civilization may have owed its rise not only to rivers but also ...