Mesopotamia, located in the fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was one of the cradles of civilization around 6000 years ago and the birthplace of the first writing system. Each ...

The Sumerians lived in Mesopotamia from about 4500 to 1750 B.C.E., and developed a number of technologies that changed the ...

The proposal had a certain logic, for although Madaba by this time was a dusty, obscure outpost in the Ottoman Empire ... earliest map of the Holy Land. (Tower of Babel featured on ancient ...

New research shows how trade rooted in local resource differences and the conflicts it sparked, made ancient Greek ...

So they commissioned the use of high-tech tools, such as an airborne laser detection system called LiDAR, for light detection and ranging, to map ... the dynamic history of Maya civilization.

For archaeologists and historians today, they represent a pivot in the ancient world’s shifting balance between empire and steppe ... largely subsumed. Above: Map of Ancient Scythia.

Ancient Mesopotamia, centered in present-day Iraq, occupies a unique place in the history of human culture. It is there, around 3400–3000 BC, that all the key elements of urban civilization first ...

ACCORDING TO ONE legend, the Kurds are descended from 400 virgins who were raped by devils on the way to King Solomon's court. Fatah Kavian, a member of the central committee of the anti-Khomeini ...

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In China, Dayu, or Yu the Great, is a household name and a character who figures prominently in the origin of Chinese civilization ... Now, with the publication of a map and its accompanying materials ...

A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it ...

The researchers looked at differences in the ancient genomes and modern-day B. recurrentis to map how the bacteria have changed over time, finding that the species likely diverged from its nearest ...