The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

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

The oldest reference in the first known writing — cuneiform — was not about gods or kings, but about beer. Lots of it. It was ...

Eight human sacrifices were found at the entrance to this tomb, which held the remains of two 12-year-olds from ancient ...

An Honorary Fellow at Oxford University's Wolfson College, Moudhy has spent much of her career translating the stories of the ...

Oxford historian, Dr Moudhy Al Rashid, on her book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...

Use AI in active learning by deploying these strategies to integrate tools in your teaching. Plus, how to address four ...

The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding light on the earliest known empire's complex bureaucracy.

In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, the world’s oldest empire. Marked with the administrative details of ...