A long-lost, popular song used in Babylon schools has been reconstructed, revealing how children learned to write and civic ...

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

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

The seminar examines femmes in novels and films who are labeled “irrational” when they refuse social conformity, Ramirez-D’Oleo wrote. Throughout the course, students read works like “Quicksand” by ...

The Dispilio tablet is a wooden artefact bearing linear marks, unearthed in 1993 during George Hourmouziadis’s excavations of ...

When it comes to condiments, Gen Z has specific tastes, and they don't always align with those of previous generations. Here ...

Think about walking through ruins that have witnessed empires rise and fall, where kings once ruled and civilizations ...

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

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

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 ...

Explore the Zayed National Museum's captivating narrative of the UAE's history through an Arab perspective, showcasing ...

Breaking a bone in your foot may not be as major as fracturing larger bones, but it can still cause pain, deformity and disability.