Sirwan Regional ProjectBeer drinking cups being excavated at Khani Masi. Scientists have long known that beer played an ...

Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

Pyramids are arguably some of the most impressive structures left behind by our ancient ancestors. Not only is it hard … ...

Anime is any animation originating in Japan. Gabriel and the Guardians is what you would call “anime-inspired” since it isn’t ...

Ali Darabi, Deputy Minister of Cultural Heritage and Tourism, visited the UNESCO-listed Tchogha Zanbil, a prehistorical ...

Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin throughout the programme, plus up to three additional languages chosen from a wide selection including Akkadian, Aramaic, Egyptian, Sumerian, Syriac and ...

This ancient civilisation is ... Architecturally, they are known for building ziggurats—massive stepped structures that served religious purposes. The Sumerian and Indus Valley civilisations ...

A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of one of the world’s earliest civilizations.

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

Recent discoveries challenge ideas of a sharp divide between the haves and have-nots in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting a larger middle class than previously thought. Mudbrick architecture in the ...