Unveiling the mysteries of early civilization, Mesopotamian clay provides valuable insights into the origins of chemistry.

Rashid’s book is as much a people’s history of Mesopotamia as it is a history of objects, great personages and notable events ...

Millennia ago, in the Fertile Crescent, the land nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now present-day Iran, the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer arose. Sumerians ...

Biblical archaeologists are using ancient texts and modern technology to uncover possible clues to one of Christianity's ...

By the Middle Bronze Age, evidence shows that cultures in the region often enjoyed one crop over the other. Widespread ...

The study offers rare insight into the genetic ancestry of early Egyptians and reveals links to both ancient North Africa and ...

On April 8, millions of Americans will be able to see the magic of a total solar eclipse. Humans have been alternatively amused, puzzled, bewildered and sometimes even terrified at the sight of this ...