Indeed, at its peak, the British Empire was by far the largest empire in history. By the 1920s, it controlled more than 13.7 ...

The city on the Euphrates, once a cradle of civilization, suffered under a succession of recent rulers. Our visit found it ...

Simon Armitage’s translation of the Sumerian epic highlights the friendship between its two heroes and the terrible grief of ...

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...

A small Christian group — the Chaldean Syrian Church — represents the faction of 1st-century Christians who firmly resisted ...

In 'The Indus', Andrew Robinson looks at the vital legacy of the Indus Valley Civiliation within modern India.

For the first time ever, the researchers deciphered these cryptic glyphs, finding, among other things, a 4,000-year-old ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

The specific tablet that has caused such excitement is a school text listing kings who ruled at the end of the third millennium BC. Other known copies of this same royal list also include Gilgamesh, ...

There's nothing quite like having a drink to celebrate payday - and it turns out this tradition dates back thousands of years ...

From Easter Island to the Great Wall of China, many of the world's most iconic cultural heritage sites are under threat from rising temperatures linked to climate change. While wars and revolutions ...

The Sumerian civilization was born around 3500 BCE in the fertile plains between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia. What makes the Sumerian civilization so special is that it was ...