I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, ...

Bronze Age cymbals found in Oman reveal how music united ancient cultures across trade routes, ceremonies, and rituals.

The cymbals were excavated from a building dating to the third millennium BCE, associated with the Umm an-Nar culture. Though ...

This year is not only the 1,700th anniversary of the first ecumenical council of the church, but also one of the years when ...

Rather than fostering genuine reconciliation, Turkey’s ‘terror-free’ process marginalizes and humiliates the Kurdish ...

Smith would go on to become the world's leading expert in the ancient Akkadian language and its fiendishly difficult script, write the first true history of Mesopotamia's long-lost Assyrian Empire ...

Discoveries in the archaeological record have sparked debate about how we should define art. Some researchers argue that art ...

Three researchers say they discovered massive structures under the pyramids at Giza. But what evidence do they provide?

Signs written in the once-taboo Kurdish language decorate shop windows. By luck, we encounter Ihsan Colemerikli, a Kurdish intellectual whose book Hakkari in Mesopotamian Civilization is a highly ...

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

According to archaeology news site Ancient Origins, the Sumerian tablet was first uncovered at the site of the city of Uruk located in ancient Mesopotamia, which is in present-day Iraq. It was part of ...

This is the second restaurant closing at the mall this year.