The result is a harshly critical societal view of play. Activities that you play, instead of simply do, are ousted from the ...

You see, the Sumerians of Mesopotamia invented beer, and they drank a lot of it. Historians believe that beer was available and consumed by everyone in ancient Mesopotamian society. It was likely ...

In the mid-1960s, a Soviet military topographer was analyzing aerial photos of Ukraine when he came across some unusual shadows. Looking closely at the patterns of plants in a number of fields, he ...

A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural ...

Standing at the edge of Dholavira is witnessing history textbooks crammed in school coming to life. One is suddenly standing ...

Some of those fields were plowed and fenced long after the fortress had crumbled into rubble; aerial photos reveal where plows tore into the foundations of ancient structures. But others may date ...

Tableware sets date back to ancient Mesopotamia. Josiah Wedgwood repopularised ... selfie – a misnomer given the shelf doesn’t take pictures of itself, but never let logic get in the way ...

The commanding Clock Tower, which is a stone’s throw from the light rail stop, was built in in 1900 in “Palestine” by the ...

Researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan. The research provides insights into regional heritage and fills gaps in knowledge about how ancient ...

Archaeologists working at Emperor Nero’s grand palace in Rome, known as Domus Aurea, uncovered a rare and rather big Egyptian ...

A significant portion of human development and history may be traced back to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, in and around present-day Iraq. The study of these new tablets could reveal ...