They authored massive archives of cuneiform tablets containing numerous ancient languages and sacred rituals. Their kings benefited from trade routes that reached far beyond the Hittite homeland ...

atavistic savagery and domination that defines colonialism and our centuries long history of pillage and exploitation. We are tumbling backwards in time to our origins, origins that never left us ...

It's Friday, and that means the summer reign of Morgan Wallen begins in earnest. His new album, I'm The Problem, is out today and will soon take root at the very top of the Billboard albums chart ...

Inscribed in cuneiform script, it outlines the rights granted by Cyrus to his subjects in Babylon. Widely seen as the first human rights charter, a replica is also displayed at the United Nations.

A mannequin draped in the Parsi Ghara saree and jewellery inspired by Victorian fashion Some of these include cuneiform bricks, terracotta pots, coins and other objects sourced from places like ...

Comparing a bad case of acne on a young man’s face to “weathered cuneiform on old marble”? In an Ocean Vuong novel, we’re really doing this. Apple's Influence on China: Patrick McGee ...

is a philosopher specialising in language. He is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Department of Philosophy at Uppsala University in Sweden.

is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Designated Emphasis programme.

The juxtaposition of these spare, beautiful and atavistic sculptures with their cultural and spiritual undercurrents, set against the extravagant 18th-century splendour, creates a subtle dialogue that ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s Ark. Cuneiform tablet, c. 2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia ...

an omnipresence so pervasive in daily life that—even a decade after I used it with any regularity—its ringtone still grabs my attention with an atavistic intensity. While it was the early ...