Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...

The complex history of the Kurdish people, from nomadic tribes to modern-day struggles for autonomy and recognition.

Başur Höyük is a site from the early Bronze Age located in Siirt, Turkey, that dates to the late fourth and early third ...

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

Opinion - When I was a student at Lukanga Adventist Secondary School, I was among the few privileged to deliver the grand ...

These 4,000-year-old tablets, uncovered at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu (modern-day Tello), reveal everything from the ...

The Archimedes screw, an ancient Greek invention for lifting water. Learn about its origins, how it works, and its modern ...

Settled around 4500 B.C.E. in modern-day Iraq, Sumer is the world’s oldest ... of governance by conquering all the Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia, creating what most historians call the first ...

As more people embrace health-conscious living, the slow aging diet has emerged as a major movement in the food and wellness ...

India’s coastline, stretching over 7,500 kilometers, has been a hub of maritime trade for millennia. Long before European ...

Ancient stone tablets show government red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists - The administrative tablets give a rare insight into ancient bureaucracy ...