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

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

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 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 ...

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

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

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

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

Plus, the attempt to separate enslaved Africans from their roots. With all the recent talk of wiping out the entire civilization of Iran. It’s a good time to remember that it wouldn’t be the first ...

Until now, it was believed that mathematical thinking only began once people gained the knowledge of numbers and writing. However, a new study reveals a potentially earlier origin of math hidden in ...