The hunt for the Garden of Eden has usually belonged to theologians and dreamers, not software coders. Yet a computer ...
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 ...
In areas under siege, the growing of fruits and vegetables and the keeping of livestock have always provided a lifeline for desperate urban populations. Lessons from siege warfare in modern times ...
Assyrian cuneiform tablet from Kanesh(Courtesy of the Yale Babylonian Collection/Photography by Alberto Urcia/Text NBC 1907) Harvard University Assyriologist Gojko Barjamovic is currently ...