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

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

Astrology, the belief that the positions of celestial bodies influence earthly events and human lives, has been a pervasive ...

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...

Marriage in Ancient Greece was an important union and the wedding ceremony was a three-day celebration for family and friends.

Geoff Keighey's non-E3 summer gaming event, the Summer Game Fest, is back for 2025. It will be held in Downtown Los Angeles from June 7th through the 9th. Summer Game Fest also coincides with the ...

A sensational new papyrus from Israel documents fraud and sedition on the eve of a major Jewish revolt against Rome in the second century CE ...

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 ...

When Thailand's long-awaited equal marriage law came into effect on Thursday, police officer Pisit "Kew" Sirihirunchai hoped to be among the first in line to marry his long-term partner Chanatip ...

The enactment of the Marriage Equality Act makes Thailand the first country in Southeast Asia and the third place in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, after Taiwan and Nepal. By the end of ...

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.

transcript Hundreds of people were married during a mass wedding in Bangkok as Thailand became the first country in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. “It means the world to us and to ...