Severe drought in northern Iraq exposed a 3,400-year-old Bronze Age city, Kemune, submerged by the Mosul Dam. Archaeologists documented for...

Ancient writing systems featured a unique style called Boustrophedon. This method involved writing lines in alternating directions, much li...

Research suggests that reliance on digital technology may harm our cognitive skills. Handwriting engages the brain more than typing, boosti...

So despite a generation-spanning effort, about 30% of Gilgamesh remains missing and there are gaps in modern understanding both of the poem...

Many of our beloved characters from the Greco-Roman classics were queer!

The tablet was recently returned by Italy to the Iraqi government. It bears the insignia of Shalmaneser III, the Assyrian king who ruled th...

Long before horses existed in the world of commerce, at the time pyramids were being built in Egypt, and ziggurats in Mesopotamia, there ex...

Studying the past can deepen our understanding of how humans have adapted to modern technology.

While ChatGPT threatens to change writing (and writing-related work) as we know it, the Mesopotamians, who lived 4,000 years ago (in a geog...

Enheduanna was a Mesopotamian priestess who lived 4000 years ago.

No other drink in the history of alcohol was so hated and fought against, so loved and cherished, so corrupted and refined.

John Ruskamp, a research doctorate in Education Illinois, claims to have spotted petroglyphs or carvings high above a walking path in Albuq...

After years of fat-fingered struggles to type emails and text messages on tiny mobile phone keypads, Japan's sumo wrestlers have been given...