Kissing is a big part of human culture. According to ancient cuneiform tablets found in Iraq, humans have been smooching since at least 2500 B.C. Around the world today, many societies share kisses in ...

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 ...

“Our findings demonstrate that the designs engraved on cylinder seals are directly connected to the development of proto-cuneiform in southern Iraq. They also show how the meaning originally ...

Was Jerusalem destroyed in 587 or 607 BCE? Often overlooked in this controversy is some evidence from Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian.

With a fresh fizz and hoppy scent, a cold beer touches all of our senses. But as our climate changes, the flavour profile of ...

The endless iterations of the Orchid Pavilion preface are both an emblem of Chinese culture, and a lens through which China ...

The chemical signature matched amber from the Baltics, meaning it traveled thousands ... Ancient historical writings, called cuneiform texts, report that amber was coveted for “supposed ...

First, the accolade for the oldest writing goes to the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia (now Iraq), where cuneiform script ... answer has been to change the definition of civilisation.

In a paper McAlpin authored in 1981 [6], he explains that the original meaning of ‘tal’ was to ‘push in’, but since cuneiform writing on clay tablets involved ‘pushing in’, the word came to mean ...