New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Drone photographs taken of a 3,000-year-old “mega fortress” nestled deep in the Caucasus Mountains reveal the settlement is ...

The evil eye symbol, believed to offer protection from envy, has been significant for over 5,000 years across various ...

The custom of marking the beginning of the New Year is at least 4,000 years old and has its roots in ancient Babylon in Mesopotamia. Mesopotamians worshipped the sun at least 2,000 years before the ...

These ancient inventions made life easier for prehistoric and ancient peoples and laid the groundwork for civilization as we ...

What most history books fail to mention is that, like other governors of the City-State of Mesopotamia, Hammurabi proclaimed the ... in order to bring justice to the oppressed”. The many ancient ...

Assyria was a major civilization of ancient Mesopotamia—a historic region centered on modern-day Iraq. During this year's excavations, archaeologists unearthed two previously unknown shrines ...

Karl Mischke … in discussing the origin of the Arabic numerals, points out that the Roman numerals from 1 to 10 originated from the primitive custom of reckoning on the fingers of the two hands ...

A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest stringed ... Based on the placement of the lyres in the tomb, the ancient Mesopotamians may have played these ...

The Dancing Girl, without any clothing, conveys a compelling narrative of grace ... spread over 6.8 lakh square kilometres―twice the size of ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia. Demographic changes took ...

Frozen Antarctica Walloped by Climate Extremes. Credit: Horacio Lyon / Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0 An ancient hidden “world” has been uncovered deep beneath the thick ice of Antarctica. Named Lake Enigma, ...