Certainly, both in Mesopotamia and Egypt, the idea that the gap between the lunar year and the solar year was a time out of time—when repair of social inequality and imbalance could be addressed. Debt ...

AMMAN - Among the oldest and most effective weapons of antiquity were simple and composite bows.Widely used during the Bronze ...

Long before alphabets came into existence, human civilisations used different means to communicate such as images and ...

Archeologists have uncovered a Bronze Age temple in Kuwait, which they believe will reveal more about the ... Dilmun was a ...

Although far from the oldest writing we have found, these cylinders are 500 years older than any previously known example of alphabetic script, if that is indeed what they carry.

With the development of the first civilisations, the weaponry also improved and some of most popular weapons in the Bronze ...

At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched letters ...

What appears to be evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay cylinders ...

It’s also a possibility that some civilizations rotted from the inside through a general system collapse. Scholars have noted ...

Professor Leore Grosman, one of the study's authors, said: "These perforated stones are actually the first wheels in form and ...

It’s amazing to see how they kept going. In the 1950s, Kathleen Kenyon’s team found many important things. They found 17 ...

Muazzez Ilmiye Cig, an internationally acclaimed Turkish scholar on ancient Sumeria, died on Sunday at the age of 110. Cig, ...