The ancient Greeks shared the Classical world with many fascinating neighboring cultures who rarely receive much mainstream ...

By 2000 B.C., it thrived as an affluent port of roughly 60,000 people who enjoyed a level of wealth unknown in other Mesopotamian cities. Its markets pulled in trade from all over the ancient ...

In the early 20th century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel and ...

The Assyrian Empire shaped the ancient world for centuries. At its height, it stretched from the Persian Gulf to Egypt, ...

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

Archaeologists excavate the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Eridu, near Basra in southern Iraq, in 2022. Alla Al-Marjani/Reuters/GTRES. ... the god of water and wisdom, ...

Ancient Greek astronomers were the first to gather knowledge about space exploration. Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos could ...

A Mesopotamian myth from nearly 4,000 years ago tells of a man who builds a boat to save the world from a divine flood, long ...

In the early 20th century, architects and artists like Hugh Ferriss drew on the myths and monuments of ancient Babylon to ...

Is Christianity a copycat religion?” It is an essential question that critics of Christianity often ask, and rightly so. After ...

Perry Stone unveiled the history and spiritual implications of ancient “incantation bowls”—pottery relics once used to trap ...

Paper, invented in China around the 2nd century BCE, did not spread to the rest of the world until much later, as it remained ...