Mumbai: Trump may have recently lowered duties on Indian spices but centuries before US tariffs, Roman-occupied England taxed ...

Hebrew University researchers uncovered 8,000-year-old pottery showing floral patterns built on precise geometric ...

Excavations show Christians and Zoroastrians coexisted in 5th-century Mesopotamia, revealed through early architecture at ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...

"We left our homes in 2011. There were no signs of life left in the city because of the daily shelling," recounted Tony ...

The fear of vampires did not begin with Dracula. Several thousand years ago, the ancient Mesopotamians had already recorded ...

The world’s first known lock-and-key system, dating back to 4000 BCE in Mesopotamia, shows how ancient people protected their ...

Ancient Mesopotamian scribes solved the world’s first recorded algebraic equation on clay tablets. Their methods laid the foundation for symbolic mathematics and influenced many modern sciences.

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

A 4,300-year-old silver goblet unearthed in occupied Palestine may bear the earliest known artistic depiction of the origin of the Universe, according to a new study. The iconic Ain Samiya cup was ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early communities harnessed predictable tides for irrigation, but when deltas ...