Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

The team of archaeologists led by Dr. Alexander Tamm (FAU, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Prof. Dirk ...

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental.

The secret to its rapid transit is in its chemistry. Ethanol, to give booze its proper name, is a tiny, agile molecule. It has a backbone of two carbon atoms and is soluble in water. It can hop over ...

According to Gallup's Global Safety Report, these underrated desert countries rank high for perceived security, with low ...

Rising from the plains of southern Iraq, the Great Ziggurat of Ur was built around 2050 BCE as a sacred link between heaven and earth. Dedicated to the moon god Nanna, it stood at the heart of one of ...

Dozens of research articles from 1999–2024 mention early Babylonians using fingerprint biometrics, despite no evidence ...

Archeologists working at White Sands National Park in  New Mexico may have uncovered the earliest known traces of such a ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

FRANKFURT. The team of archaeologists led by Dr. Alexander Tamm (FAU, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Prof. Dirk Wicke ...

A Study Gallery of India and the Ancient World, trains its lens to the duration between the Harappan civilisation — which ...

In Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus valley, the first urban settlements were built around irrigated farmland. Flooded terrace fields for rice, corn and quinoa accompanied the spread of civilization in ...