The same force that paved the way for the Greek Golden Age sowed the seeds of its political collapse: individualism.

The Sumerians created one of the earliest urban civilizations in human history. In southern Mesopotamia, they built powerful cities, developed cuneiform writing, organized complex governments, and ...

Ivory gaming pieces from the tomb of King Djet, dating to Egypt's First Dynasty around 3100 BC, display the exact same sculptural style as the Great Sphinx: a recumbent lion with tail curled around ...

Uruk, the world’s first metropolis and the birthplace of written language, was nourished by the Euphrates River, as was Babylon, ancient Mesopotamia’s grandest city. The fertile plain between the ...

Study reveals Euphrates River formed millions of years ago when ancient rivers merged due to tectonic activity, reshaping Mesopotamia’s early civilisation history.

Why do we still believe women don’t experience as much desire as men? In a new book, sex historian Kate Lister examines enduring myths about female pleasure, revealing how culture — rather than ...

It sounds like the beginning of a horror movie: Archaeologists in southern Russia have uncovered the remains of a roughly 6,000-year-old board game that researchers believe could represent a very ...

Hidden beneath an ancient temple in Assur, Iraq, archaeologists have made a discovery that holds potentially crucial evidence for the cult of Ishtar’s origins in the area. Assyria was a major ...

Home to Gilgamesh, Uruk was the major force of urbanization and state formation during the 4th millennium BC. In Epic of Gilgamesh, the king is said to have built the city’s monumental walls. There ...

The first civilization in world history in the marshlands of southern Mesopotamia was founded by the Sumerians. The greatest epoch in Sumerian history flourished during the Uruk Period, when mighty ...