Dreams have been a mystery to us since man first developed the ability to walk upright The stuff of legends myth and fairy tale dreams have always fascinated mankind We can learn much from our dreams ...

Nearchus, the Navigator, bridged East and West with a daring voyage that reshaped ancient maritime strategy and trade routes.

Sykes-Picot divided Syria and the broader region for imperial gain—not peace. That mistake cost generations. We will not make ...

City life isn't always a walk in the park; unless you're actually walking through a park. It's noisy, crowded, and commutes can be frustrating. If only there was a way to design the perfect city to ...

Long before modern markets, ancient merchants laid the foundation of international trade in Mesopotamia and Anatolia. This episode explores how business was conducted in the Bronze Age - through ...

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The London institution, which turns 25 this week, encouraged its peers to look beyond the West. But its greatest impact was to remake the art museum into a kind of theme park. Credit...Andy Haslam ...

Around 2,500 years ago, a princess living in what is now modern-day Iraq collected a number ... tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia, a period in world history sometimes known as a “forgotten ...

A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, a researcher at the ...

This map depicted a local river network and earth mounds, reflecting a more modern map concept used for navigation. Dr Milnes says that collaborating across disciplines -- such as archaeology ...

In Mesopotamia, love was particularly associated with the liver, heart and knees. Modern: PNAS / Lauri Nummenmaa et al., Mesopotamian: Juha Lahnakoski Our bodily map of happiness, in fact ...

Understanding of anatomy in ancient Mesopotamia “Even in ancient ... if you compare the ancient Mesopotamian bodily map of happiness with modern bodily maps, it is largely similar, with the ...