Discover who invented mathematics! Learn why Archimedes is called the 'Father' of mathematics and explore the key milestones ...

Eridu’s status was legendary even in ancient times. Babylonians actually believed that Eridu was the oldest city on Earth, having been created by the gods themselves. That kind of reverence attracted ...

In Yiddish, the Holocaust is known as der driter khurbn, the Third Destruction. That designation is a clear sign that for ...

However, the Babylonians were such a dominant culture in the Near East, especially in the sixth and seventh centuries B.C., that this, and many of their other notions of time – such as a 60 ...

We’ve never escaped the influence of the Babylonians. That there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 360 degrees in a full circle, are all echoes of the Babylonian preference ...

Current textbooks on the history of math say this invention took place around A.D. 1350. In the mid-14th century, mathematicians at Merton College in England who were referred to as the "Oxford ...

Written on four tablets, three of which date back no later than 1730 B.C., the recipes are considered to be the oldest known. And they taste pretty good, says a scholar who re-created them.

A RARE 2,600 year-old clay seal linked to a Biblical scroll that threatened to curse people with hunger and devastation has ...

Invoking past disasters to promote Jewish guilt about Gaza disgracefully manipulates history and the truth about the war, as ...