Rather than being a recent cultural development, kissing may have been practised by other early humans like Neanderthals and ...

Archaeologists studied Semiyarka, dubbed The City of Seven Ravines, a settlement from 1600 BC that may have been a powerhouse for metal production. Here’s what they found.

An archeological investigation into an ancient city in central Asia has shed new light on the region's economic history.

Dubai: Iraq’s National Olympic Committee announced plans to raise the largest Emirati and Iraqi flags ever unfurled inside a ...

By Sophie MacDonald Dr Paul Cooper presented his new book, Fall of Civilisations: Stories of Greatness and Decline, at the Gibraltar Literary Festival. He both compellingly and poignantly detailed the ...

Independent researchers led by Michael Donnellan claim to have discovered ancient ruins on Spain's Salmedina Island that ...

Universe’ - Researchers say art combines elements of various myths and legends from across ancient Mesopotamia ...

An ancient alabaster vase from Yale’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opium, offering the strongest evidence yet ...

This most private of men presented an elegant and meticulous persona in his music and Kilpatrick has responded with an ...

Way back in Mesopotamia, writing developed. Then Phoenicians made an alphabet. A couple of years later, Gutenberg invented a ...

Scientists have found traces of ancient opiates in the residue lining an Egyptian alabaster vase, indicating that opiate use ...

A tiny silver goblet discovered decades ago in the Judean Hills might hold the oldest known depiction of cosmic creation – and the scenes etched into its surface tell a surprisingly peaceful story.