St Cuthbert lived on the island of Lindisfarne on a diet of raw onions, and died in AD 687. Four centuries later his coffin ...

Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...

Around 2112 B.C., the Sumerian king Ur-Namma (r. 2112–2095 B.C.) united the city-states of southern Mesopotamia into a short-lived kingdom known today as the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur III. More than ...

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Assyrian cuneiform tablet from Kanesh(Courtesy of the Yale Babylonian Collection/Photography by Alberto Urcia/Text NBC 1907) Harvard University Assyriologist Gojko Barjamovic is currently ...

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Humans have sought out relationships since the earliest days of Homo sapiens — but getting married? That's something our ancestors didn't have in mind. Marriage as an institution is likely only ...

As 2024 begins drawing to a close, it’s time to look ahead at Netflix’s new animated series slate. Below, we’ll cover all the new and returning animated shows expected to hit our screens in 2025 and ...

A clay tablet with proto-cuneiform writing. Image credits: Jim Kuhn/Wikimedia Commons. Imagine a world without written records — no books, no laws, no way to document discoveries or communicate ideas ...

Water management has been a cornerstone of human civilization since the dawn of agricultural societies. The availability and control of water resources have not only dictated the survival of ...