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 world’s first known lock-and-key system, dating back to 4000 BCE in Mesopotamia, shows how ancient people protected their valuables. Built from wood and pins, this mechanism inspired later Greek ...

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 ...

Political parties representing the Assyrian people in Iraq established the Assyrian Martyrs' Monument in the city of Simmele ...

A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of ...

A study says the Ain Samiya goblet, found in 1970, depicts a moment of cosmic creation, challenging previous scholarly ...