The first writing system appeared roughly 5,000 years ago in Sumer, southern Mesopotamia—modern‑day Iraq. Using a reed stylus, people pressed wedge‑shaped marks into clay tablets, creating cuneiform.

A lost archive from the Bronze Age resurfaces after years in hiding, offering rare insight into a forgotten empire’s power, language, and diplomacy.

News of a 'Damp January' is suggesting alcohol producers like Diageo might have a brighter outlook for the shares. Time to ...

When I first started seeing my husband, I rebuked him for giving me a Valentine’s Day card with the salutation, “Dearest Rowan”. I explained patiently that there were other, more suitable greetings, ...

Kissing is often labelled a Western import, but history tells a different story. From Vedic texts to Khajuraho sculptures and ...

On Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island, soaring architecture and cutting-edge museums are reshaping history into a story the desert has never told before ...

Young lovers are foregoing expensive gifts and turning instead to quill and paper. Is it a result of the cost-of-living ...

Gilgamesh, the builder-king of Uruk, and Achilles, the destroyer-prince of Phthia, represent the primal archetypes of the ...

Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to stand face to face with a real Egyptian mummy without ever leaving Georgia? At the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, that unforgettable moment is ...

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

With new technology, smarter tools, and a lot of patient digging, historians and archaeologists are uncovering marvels from ...

IN this volume, the seventh of the series that Col. Waddell has devoted to the exposition of his views on the origin and relations of the great civilisations of antiquity, the author aims at ...