In the UAE, a multidisciplinary team has brought the region’s ancient maritime history to life by reconstructing a working ...

The well-preserved tomb near Aleppo in Syria contained six skeletons, gold and silver jewellery, cookware, pottery and even a spearhead. But it was the finger-shaped clay cylinders lying nearby that ...

Art is a space where conversations collide in Maryam Yousif’s whimsical, cheeky and thoughtful three-dimensional ...

Scattered around the sites of ancient Mesopotamia are thousands of devices called cylinder seals. They are equal parts stamp, credit card, and jewelry. They were how people signed for things and ...

THE thesis which it is proposed to outline here embodies the following propositions: (1) Available evidence points to Mesopotamia as the oldest known centre of scientific observation permanently ...

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The annoucement of this new find comes in the same month that another major necropolis was excavated by archaeologists, revealing a tomb filled with “exquisite” jewellery.

Humans have been baking for millennia, and now, reconstructions of ancient baking trays suggests the families in Mesopotamia may have been making some of the same things on our plates today.

According to some archeologists, Mesopotamian communities may have even started baking large loaves of shared bread between 7,000 and 5,000 BCE—thousands of miles away from their modern Roman ...

Now, a team from the University of Bologna in Italy has linked symbols on ancient Mesopotamian seals with an archaic visual communication system called proto-cuneiform; an art form which would in time ...

The carvings each tell a story, depicting moments from the Ramayana and Mahabharata alongside historical narratives from Arabian, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian cultures. Because of that, they offer a ...

The couple stands on the edge of the sheer limestone cliff. More than 100 metres (328ft) beneath them is a lost world of ancient forests, plants and animals. All they can see is leafy tree tops ...