On a slow afternoon a few years ago, Dubai restaurateur Ahmet Oytun Cakir was in his office considering menu inspiration.

At Gabo, we have never seen the kitchen merely as a site of production; we’ve always understood it as a space of ...

The ancient ˁAin Samiya cup is one of the most remarkable finds of the Intermediate Bronze Age.

Dreams have long been thought to predict the future. They may actually do a better job of reflecting our more recent sensory ...

Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited for many firsts in human history, including writing, urbanism and the state. Among these ...

An ancient alabaster vase from Yale’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opium, offering the strongest evidence yet of widespread opiate use in ancient Egypt. A recently analyzed alabaster v ...

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

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

The story depicted on the ˁAin Samiya goblet—an 8 cm tall silver vessel from the Intermediate Bronze Age (c. 2650–1950 ...

Once scarred by conflict and closed to visitors, several destinations around the world have transformed from battlefields ...

This suggests similar alabaster vessels from the time period—often made from soft calcite stone and used for perfumes and ...