The Sumerians are often credited with creating one of the world’s earliest civilizations, developing cities, writing, and complex social systems in southern Mesopotamia. Yet despite their importance, ...

Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Indus: Lost Civilizations, Andrew Robinson, published by‎ Macmillan, an ...

While the drive-thru window might seem like a pretty modern culinary invention, its roots may actually reach back much, much ...

Simon Armitage’s translation of the Sumerian epic highlights the friendship between its two heroes and the terrible grief of ...

The Euphrates River is dying. The river that once carved the heart of the ancient world, the waterway that flowed through the Garden of Eden, nourished the empires of Babylon and Assyria, and gave ...

The tablets revealed writing on topics ranging from daily life to a list of kings.

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first ...

The city on the Euphrates, once a cradle of civilization, suffered under a succession of recent rulers. Our visit found it ...

Across Anatolia’s layered history, the door emerges not as a mere architectural element but as a symbolic threshold where ...

The specific tablet that has caused such excitement is a school text listing kings who ruled at the end of the third millennium BC. Other known copies of this same royal list also include Gilgamesh, ...

Indeed, at its peak, the British Empire was by far the largest empire in history. By the 1920s, it controlled more than 13.7 ...

Whatever else it is, Marxist philosopher Franco Berardi argues, the Futurist Manifesto “is an act of faith in the future. I ...