Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

Archeologists working at White Sands National Park in  New Mexico may have uncovered the earliest known traces of such a ...

Three hundred archaeological objects from 15 institutions trace long-distance trade, shared beliefs and cultural exchange ...

Hebrew University researchers uncovered 8,000-year-old pottery showing floral patterns built on precise geometric ...

Assyrian cuneiform tablet from Kanesh(Courtesy of the Yale Babylonian Collection/Photography by Alberto Urcia/Text NBC 1907) Harvard University Assyriologist Gojko Barjamovic is currently ...

Around 2112 B.C., the Sumerian king Ur-Namma (r. 2112–2095 B.C.) united the city-states of southern Mesopotamia into a short-lived kingdom known today as the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur III. More than ...

Digital platforms are recasting the relationships between customers, workers, and employers as the silicon chip’s reach permeates almost everything we do—from buying groceries online to finding a ...

Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...