The Library of Congress traces the tradition of April Fools' pranks back to the Roman festival of Hilaria, celebrated the day ...

While teaching humans about their ancient civilizations may seem like an odd job for artificial intelligence, it has ...

The carob seed which became the modern carats shows how ancient Greeks devised ingenious ways to ensure fairness in trade.

Oxford historian, Dr Moudhy Al Rashid, on her book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...

Recovered from an ancient shipwreck off the coast of Antikythera, this bronze device is considered one of the most advanced ...

The Lilith myth holds that Eve was not Adam’s first wife. His first wife, Lilith, had some issues with Adam’s patriarchal tendencies and refused to be dominated by him. The contention between them ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well as evidence of a cult of personality around a particularly charismatic rule ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian site of Girsu, called Tello today. Settled around 4500 B.C.E. in modern-day Iraq, Sumer is the world’s oldest known civilization. During the third ...