According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its ...

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“Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins” features artworks on loan from Musée du Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and Musée Auguste Grasset – Varzy. (Getty Museum) (The ...

The first ever recorded kiss happened 4,500 years ago, scientists have suggested, after discovering evidence which puts the ...

Ancient bricks from Mesopotamia have helped confirm a mysterious anomaly in Earth's magnetic field that occurred 3,000 years ago, a new study finds. Brickmakers baked the bricks, which were imprinted ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that at least 11 children and young people were killed as a result of ritualistic sacrifice between 3100 and 2800 B.C.E. Their research was published Wednesday ...

As the mother of two teenagers and a former teenage misanthrope, I’ve developed an anthropological fascination with adolescent grievances spanning the millennia. Nothing validates my parenting quite ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.