Gender-ambiguous people in ancient Mesopotamia were powerful and important members of society more than four millennia ago.
The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...
Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a ...
Sumerian RecordsType of Music: MetalBooking: Jason Parent, Sound TalentPublicity: Charley Johns, Cosa Nostra PR A&R: Sal Torres, Sumerian RecordsWeb: vanamusicofficial.com Aukland-based ...
Claiming Plato founded the first university misses the mark. The Greeks were latecomers.
Researchers believe that ancient boatbuilders deliberately selected damaged trees or injured them during their growth period ...
In his fifteenth novel, award-winning author Gerald Everett Jones invites readers on an intriguing emotional journey ...
A diary is often treated like a private little habit—something you do when you’re emotional, bored, or trying to “be more ...
Unearthed in Germany, the Nebra Sky Disc may be the world’s oldest cosmic map, revealing how ancient Europeans read the stars ...
NIPPUR MAP TABLET. DATE: ca. 1500 B.C. MATERIAL: Clay. DIMENSIONS: 5 inches by 4.3 inches. FOUND: Nippur, Iraq. For the busy farmers of the Babylonian sacred city of Nippur, ready access to water was ...
These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him wearing a ...