By Islam Salah El Din Board games have always been more than just a way to pass the time. In ancient Arab cultures, these games were a mix of entertainment, social connection, and even spiritual ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Whether created by ancient Egyptian scribes, medieval monks, or Mayan priests, these 26 remarkable survivors have endured ...

A symbolic tradition across the world, colorful Easter eggs are synonymous with the holiday. The Easter egg museum in ...

Nestled in the mountains of Duhok province’s Shekhan district, Lalish Temple, the holiest site in the Yazidi faith, hosted ...

Little by little researchers are unraveling the mysteries of the Maya culture of Central America ... revealing a turbulent period of time of the ancient Maya city of Tikal. An altar was found ...

Tucked away in sleepy Perlis, Malaysia’s tiniest state, an ambitious infrastructure project is quietly taking shape. The backers of the Perlis Inland Port believe that it could one day sit at ...

then ancient Mesopotamia ought to be famous for its astonishing legacy of poetry and prose. For the Babylonians and Assyrians left a huge corpus of literature. Written in two languages, Sumerian and ...

So how did the Indigenous operation of this landscape succeed, where the Spanish and the modern-day agro-industrial complex have repeatedly failed? Culture was crucial for ancient canal systems ...

Culture was crucial for ancient canal systems Ancient beliefs, behaviors and norms – what archaeologists call culture – were fundamentally integrated into technological solutions in this part ...