Gender-ambiguous people in ancient Mesopotamia were powerful and important members of society more than four millennia ago.

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While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...

Abraham Adhanom was wrapping up his 14th year of teaching two African language courses when the dean of humanities notified ...

The first writing system appeared roughly 5,000 years ago in Sumer, southern Mesopotamia—modern‑day Iraq. Using a reed stylus ...

Do you know which ancient culture is the largest 'lost' civilisation? Let’s explore how this Bronze Age superpower thrived ...

In this two-part article, the author presents an overview of what various ancient textual artifacts “remember” about the earliest loan closings ...

The story is told of how the Armenian king Trdat (also known as Tiridates III) was physically transformed into a wild boar as ...

How does she do it, grip each new generation with her thrillers? On her 50th death anniversary, we add it all up: truth, toxins, an unerring eye for detail.

In late autumn 2021, receding waters of Georgia's Bashplemi Lake exposed a small stone slab etched with unfamiliar symbols, ...

Discover the evolution of journals from ancient Mesopotamian records to personal diaries like Samuel Pepys and Anne Frank's, ...

Dimitri Filippidis refers to “Alexander the Great as Greek and Macedonian, who spoke the Greek language and spread Greek culture.” ...