Saint Isaac of Nineveh withdrew into solitude, not out of contempt for the world, but to rediscover its divine beauty through prayer. His emphasis on silence and stillness as pathways to understanding ...

AI breathes life into a 3,000-year-old Babylonian text, reconnecting the modern world with the forgotten voice of an ancient civilization.

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 ...

Iraqi officials are sounding the alarm to save monuments of the cradle of civilisation, with thousands of years of history at ...

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

Iraqi heritage officials warn that climate change is stripping southern Mesopotamia of its treasures, as soaring heat, ...

A study reveals that Sumer, the cradle of civilization, rose because of natural tidal irrigation that shaped the world’s ...

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

The ghost stories of the ancient world reveal much about humanity’s early attempts to understand death and the afterlife. Whether it was a story to serve a moral lesson, a religious reminder, or ...

Research shows that ancient tides shaped the rise of Sumer, the world’s first civilization. Shifting deltas and tidal rhythms ...

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

For millennia, ancient civilizations have left us clues about the importance of living in harmony with nature. Despite the warnings etched in stone tablets, whispered through sacred texts, and painted ...