It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its creators pull that off? Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania ...

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Long before Olympus, Asgard, or Eden, the gods of Mesopotamia and Egypt were carved into stone and etched into clay. While older myths may have echoed through oral tradition, these were the first to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced ...

In 1911, the explorer Gertrude Bell visited the German excavations at Ashur, the founding capital of the Assyrian empire. Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, the ...

Listen up, archaeologists and linguists. The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is offering $1 million to whoever can make sense of an unintelligible Bronze Age script used in the Indus Valley, in what is now ...

Nestled between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in what is modern-day Iraq, a sophisticated early civilization called Sumer sprang up some 6,000 years ago (long before any of Europe's most ancient ...

The top country songs of 2024 prove that country music — especially traditional country music — is in very good hands. A full 25 percent of the Top 40 songs from this year are by artists who've never ...

A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest stringed instrument ever found. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Happiness "lights up" similar areas on both modern and ancient body maps, with the exception of the liver, which was more significant for the ancient Mesopotamians. Modern: PNAS / Lauri Nummenmaa et ...

Ask a person raised in Taiwan where they feel their rage most in their body; there's a good chance they'll indicate somewhere around their head or chest. Halfway around the world in Finland, you're ...