THE great and inventive people who settled 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia ... chipping away at the sites of such ancient city-states as Ur, Lagash and Mari. Last week a U.S. expedition, sponsored ...

Pyramids are arguably some of the most impressive structures left behind by our ancient ancestors. Not only is it hard … ...

Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery of thousands of cuneiform tablets at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu in southern Iraq, at a location known as Tablet Hill, stated Archaeology ...

Brutus magazine (Feb 1) celebrates the museum – and why not? A museum is itself a celebration – of art, of genius, of life, ...

The World: A Family History of Humanity. Alfred A. Knopf, 1304 pages, hardcover, bibliography available separately. The ...

In this short, the British Museum curator Sébastien Rey untangles an intricate archaeological puzzle some six millennia in the making. First, Rey introduces viewers to an excavation site of the ...

[7] Effects of sea level rise and population growth on densely populated low-lying estuarine coastal areas.

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

Bolstered by renowned texts and international trips, the Western Humanities sequence attracts many underclass students, while ...

These days, the summer of 2023 feels like it was 4,000 years ago, but actually, it was less than two. If you need hard ...