This 5,000-year-old tablet is believed to hold the world's first signature — and it's on a receipt for beer. Experts believe ...

Trumbull Career & Technical Center board meeting Thursday The board: ● Approved a five-year contract for Treasurer Cody Holecko, from August 2025 to July 2030. His salary now is $119,000. ● Accepted ...

When the former New York Times Paris bureau chief first set out to write a book about the most famous and largest museum in ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only ...

Larry Niven's Ringworld won him the Hugo and Nebula awards when it was published 55 years ago. As the New Scientist Book Club ...

As early as 8000 B.C., ancient Sumerians used clay tokens to make ... persisted at least through the Code of Hammurabi days in Mesopotamia. In 500 B.C. Greece, the first options (remember, an ...

In the Middle Ages, the Roman Church replaced this idea of debt cancellation with the concept of plenary indulgence—an ...

Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, ...

A sunken 'pyramid' near Taiwan may rewrite everything we thought we knew about the ancient world. Sitting just 82 feet below ...

This is the second restaurant closing at the mall this year.