They posited that human ingenuity alone couldn’t have produced the surplus needed to feed ancient city-states like Uruk, Ur, ...

In the late 1800s archaeologists pinpointed the location of Taxila, one of the greatest religious and cultural sites on the ...

Learn how the first civilization in Mesopotamia depended on tides and how it responded when faced with a major environmental ...

How did ancient Sumer thrive? New research points to natural tidal irrigation! Tides brought water and nutrients to early ...

A newly published study challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, ...

A newly published study in PLOS ONE, Morphodynamic Foundations of Sumer,challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting that the rise of ...

The mysterious Harappan civilization is considered the third oldest in the ancient East after that of Egypt and Mesopotamia.

Prehistoric teeth and bones are providing new knowledge of present-day infectious diseases.

A promising scientific dig becomes a nightmare in an episode of Strange New Worlds that sees the crew confront an ancient evil.

No need to be an ancient king, either. The Denver Museum of Nature and Science temporary exhibit, Angkor: The Lost Empire of Cambodia enables kids to design their own temple starting with rusty “red ...