Discover the Imago Mundi, the 2,600-year-old Babylonian world map from Sippar, Iraq. Learn how it blends geography, myth & ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

The power of Ramses III spread over key routes and was marked by rock inscriptions in his name—one has been found in Wadi Rum ...

Professor Kulakoglu explains that many of the words, although Assyrian in origin -- a Semitic language considered an ancestor ...

Shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence. A new study has revealed how Neo-Assyrian writing boards were made, offering the earliest known example of cuneiform writing on wax. These ancient boards, ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics influence the trajectory and speed of the plates as they plunge deep into ...

Ancient beliefs, behaviors and norms—what archaeologists call culture—were fundamentally integrated into technological solutions in this part of Peru in ancient times. Isolating and removing ...

A team of Egyptian and French archaeologists have discovered ancient artefacts dating back to a school known as the 'House of Life. The group were excavating an area near the Ramesseum Temple in ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a remarkably well-preserved dog from ancient Rome – and the discovery highlights the prevalence of ritual sacrifice in antiquity. The excavation ...

In February, a man from southern Alberta flew to Central America to return an ancient artifact his family had been gifted decades before. Don McDougall from Okotoks, Alta., says a jade amulet from ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A Viking settlement near Wigton is set to host its third annual ancient crafts festival. The festival will take place at the Moorforge ...

In 1911, the explorer Gertrude Bell visited the German excavations at Ashur, the founding capital of the Assyrian empire. Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq ...