People in ancient Mesopotamia depended on rivers. But rivers sometime moved, imposing stress on communities. Research shows ...

Bartle Bull’s “Land Between the Rivers” is a sweeping and superbly written epic, from Gilgamesh fortifying Uruk, the “ur-city ...

The kaffiyeh is a square-shaped hand-woven checkered scarf with a wavy motif around the border– representing olive leaves—and ...

Despite being among the most advanced of the ancient civilisations, little is known about the Indus Valley Civilisation to ...

An archaeological team has initiated a comprehensive survey in southeast Iran as part of efforts to trace further Bronze Age ...

The long cycles of planetary ice ages and warming allowed prehistoric people to shift from nomadic hunting and gathering to ...

The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced the findings on Thursday, after finding the less than two-centimeter textile hiding in the 'Cave of Skulls' in the Judean Desert. Continue reading ...

A groundbreaking study has made it possible to extract much more information from fingerprints for use as evidence than what ...

The video in question is titled Mesopotamia: Crash Course World History #3 and was created by Complexly, an online video and audio production company, based in Missoula, Montana, and Indianapolis ...