A Mesopotamian myth from nearly 4,000 years ago tells of a man who builds a boat to save the world from a divine flood, long ...

In the early 20th century, architects and artists like Hugh Ferriss drew on the myths and monuments of ancient Babylon to ...

In the early 20th century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel and ...

Step back in time as we recreate the world's oldest known recipe — a rich and hearty lamb stew from ancient Mesopotamia.

Why was the country of Iran formerly called Persia? What has this got to do with the conquests of ancient Middle Eastern ...

Bailey, whose research includes a paper titled “Why Your Dreaded Commute Is Good for You”, argues that remote work eliminates ...

From Mozart and Dostoyevsky to Jackson Pollock — two books reveal the fundamental and sometimes surprising intertwining of ...

Before ma’amoul were treats served at special occasions, they were simple biscuits that fueled travelers. “‘Ma’amoul’ is not ...

In Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time, a young woman must help a naval commander snatched from death in 1847 adapt to the ...

In fact, like many words and phrases in the English language, a.m. is short for a Latin phrase, “ante meridiem” (or “before ...

Neurospirituality crosses multiple disciplines to study how and why the human brain has a sense of the divine. Evidence is ...

Aamir Zulfiqar Khan ...