Archaeologists in Iraq have discovered the remains of a 5,000-year-old building that might have been used as a "cultic space" ...

As soon as Abraham Van Helsing understands the danger in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, he gathers together his allies to explain ...

Buried beneath the waters of Quintana Roo, Mexico lies a discovery that breaks the historical timeline wide open — a 12,500-year-old ochre mine carved into limestone by organized hands. These weren’t ...

Climate change and rising salinity threaten Iraq's ancient cities like Ur and Babylon, imperiling thousands of years of ...

Archaeologists uncover a monumental 5,000-year-old building in Mesopotamia’s Kani Shaie, revealing Uruk’s cultural reach.

Research has identified the composite bow as the most lethal weapon of the Bronze Age, challenging long-held beliefs about its origins and transforming our understanding of ancient warfare. A new ...

New research reveals Sumer’s cities may have risen with the tides, rewriting the origin story of the world’s first ...

A monumental structure, whose foundations date back to the dawn of urbanization in the Fertile Crescent, has been unearthed at the Kani Shaie site in the Kurdistan region of northeastern Iraq (in the ...

A recently published study in PLOS ONE is reshaping scientific understanding of the rise of urban civilization in ancient ...

One of the many great things about baseball is that time can never run out. In baseball, a comeback is always possible. The game's not over until you get the 27th out -- or, sometimes, a lot more than ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

A joint Kuwaiti-Danish archaeological team has uncovered a remarkable 4,000-year-old Bronze Age temple on Failaka Island, ...