The sweet treats in ancient Rome were made by filling dates with nuts (such as almonds or walnuts) and then sometimes rolling ...

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some Bronze Age societies shifted from egalitarianism to more rigid class ...

This theory was based on the idea that by the early Bronze Age, Mesopotamian societies were ruled by kings and organized into social hierarchies. But the new study complicates that idea.

HarperCollins In a darker story thread, Jadis takes on the role of a Satan figure (along with a bit of a Lilith parallel, for those of you up to date on your Mesopotamian and Jewish mythology).

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PARIS — A French court on Monday barred Marine Le Pen from seeking public office for five years, with immediate effect, for embezzlement — a hammer blow to the far-right leader’s ...

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New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) is home to one of the world’s most spectacular collections of art, sculpture, ...

Found at a beach in northern Poland, the nearly ten-inch-long artifact could be up to 2,500 years old. It had been lodged inside a lump of clay New Research Researchers previously assumed that ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

The Maid of Orleans cropped her hair like a man and wore male clothes but never adopted a non-binary gender identity - Bettmann ...