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

A 4,300-year-old silver goblet unearthed in occupied Palestine may bear the earliest known artistic depiction of the origin ...

Modern scientists point to an empirical truth: We live on a planet in constant motion and mutation. As Winchester presents it ...

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

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

Assyrian cylinder seal from the late ninth to seventh centuries B.C.E., made of chalcedony and inscribed with a cultic scene. The image on the right shows the impression the seal would make. Gift of ...

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

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A fifth-century Christian mosaic was unearthed in Urfa, Turkey, the traditional birthplace of Abraham, shedding light on ...

Back in the day, Ancient Mesopotamia was the place to be. Considering the geographical area of some of humanity’s most ...

Researchers have rediscovered a long-lost Babylonian hymn from 1000 BCE, using artificial intelligence to piece together ...