Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

First, these essays embody a diligent critique of modernity's anthropocentrism that tends to elevate humans above all other ...

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

From the bronze age to the Industrial Revolution and beyond, the discovery and development of new materials has been a ...

Learn how environmental changes have humbled many of history’s most successful and dominant cultures.

Recent discoveries challenge ideas of a sharp divide between the haves and have-nots in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting a larger middle class than previously thought. Mudbrick architecture in the ...

The artifacts, which included amulets and a sculpture, smelled like earth when they spilled out of his suitcases, according ...

A Leicester lecturer who attempts to predict the future by analysing sheep livers claims Cynthia Erivo will win an Oscar this ...

The transitional process will be fraught with challenges, but the Syrian people deserve a peaceful, stable and prosperous ...

The Erbil Civilization Museum, which houses rare artifacts dating back thousands of years, from the Stone Age to the Sumerian, Assyrian, and Islamic periods, stands as a testament to the historical ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...