In 'Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum,' an author peels back the curtain of a ...

Bronze Age cymbals discovered in Oman show music's role in connecting ancient civilizations, shifting focus from trade to ...

Paris exhibition unveils Gaza’s 5,000-year-old artifacts, shedding light on the region’s rich history amid the destruction of ...

While sifting through the ruins of an ancient building in Oman, archaeologists unearthed a pair of green-blue discs. The finds turned out to be a 4,000-year-old musical instrument — offering a “rare ...

Around 2300 B.C.E., the Mesopotamian king Sargon—a native ... The site’s missing or decontextualized artifacts previously made for fuzzy conclusions about the Akkad government.

Once part of ancient Mesopotamia, Başur Höyük is dated to between 3100 and 2800 B.C. Several stone tombs were discovered ...

University College London, the University of Central Lancashire, Ege University, and other institutions have discovered that ...

Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of an ancient biblical battle, all thanks to a few broken fragments found ...

He poured the drink, going from right to left, for all the other gods, drawing off sweet nectar from the mixing bowl.” It ...

Archaeology often describes the rise of power and hierarchy in early Mesopotamia as a move from ... metallurgical artifacts, and spatial burial configurations to assess indicators of social ...