There's old-fashioned cooking and then there's this. Mersu is the oldest known dessert in human history, being discovered on ...

Julius Caesar was believed to have messed up the months in a year, but was trying to fix the solar calendar, resulting in one ...

This year is not only the 1,700th anniversary of the first ecumenical council of the church, but also one of the years when ...

Qannati Objet d'Art announces the launch of the first-ever watchmaking initiative in Bahrain and the GCC, following global recognition from The ...

Writing and trade have an inseparable history. Some of the oldest surviving examples of written language are stocktakes and ledgers recorded in the ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform script. Since copper ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

Carvings on a 12,000-year-old monument in Turkey appear to mark solar days and years, making it possibly the oldest solar calendar in ancient civilization. Marking a massive comet strike as the start, ...

Researchers uncovered a remarkably preserved network of over 200 ancient irrigation canals in southern Mesopotamia, revealing sophisticated water management techniques used as early as the sixth ...

Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, the Assyrians had conquered Babylon and Egypt and ruled in the Mesopotamian region from around 1300-600 B.C. At the dig ...

is located in Turkey’s southeastern Siirt province at the margins of the ancient region of Mesopotamia. Between roughly 3100 and 2800 B.C.E., communities began performing “conspicuous and ...

“DNA extracted from two pastoralist women who were buried at the rock shelter around 7,000 years ago reveals that most of their ancestry can be traced to a previously unknown ancient North ...

Ten thousand years before humans developed agriculture or built the first cities in Mesopotamia, Ancient Native Americans trekked across southern New Mexico carrying cargo on wooden travois they ...