Lapis lazuli, known as 'blue gold', has captivated civilizations for millennia with its vibrant blue color and historical significance. Mined primaril ...

These are the events and people that shaped the history of travel, from early pilgrimages and the Age of Discovery, to the ...

Grima meticulously details the family’s daily life in Mesopotamia, weaving rich descriptions ... of cultures across time and geography, illustrating how ancient narratives and symbols transcend ...

Before the current written scripts, texts, and linguistic manuscripts, there were various oldest writing systems emerging ...

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a 1,7200-year-old artifact found in a city where Jesus spent most of his life.

The Sumerians of Mesopotamia are considered the world's oldest civilisation, dating back to around 4000 BCE. The Sumerians ...

Mesopotamia's trade networks collapsed and ... Many historians believe the Indus civilisation collapsed because of changes to the geography and climate of the area. Movements in the Earth ...

They pioneered irrigation techniques that transformed agriculture in the arid landscape of Mesopotamia ... differences in various aspects such as geography, social structure, economic practices ...

The world’s oldest map unlocks secrets from 3,000 years ago revealing how our ancestors understood the world. The Babylonian ...

Excavations on the island have revealed goods from the late bronze age (1550-1200 BCE) that indicate trade connections with Egypt, Greece, Mesopotamia, India and even the Baltic Sea; due to its ...

Imperatives of faith push it towards the Middle East and those of its geography, history and culture ... with the Middle East (Persian Gulf, Mesopotamia and Egypt) is as old as Harappan cities.

Water buffalo gently glide through shallow water canals that snake throughout Iraq’s southern Mesopotamian Marshes, their ...