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

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 ...

Historians recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document depicting the tales of King Arthur and Merlin – and its survival is considered a miracle. The discovery was announced by the University ...

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 ...

On 10.04.2025, Sebastian Fink from the Department of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck organized a workshop entitled “New Approaches to the Sumerian ...

Archaeologists excavating the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the ancient church in Jerusalem situated where Jesus Christ was crucified and buried, recently found evidence of ancient olive trees and ...

An ancient civilization on Mars was wiped out by a nuclear attack from another alien race. It might sound like the plot of a science fiction novel, but Harvard scientist Dr John Brandenburg ...

A mysterious underwater structure off the coast of Japan has some experts wondering if we've seriously underestimated ancient civilizations. Known as the Yonaguni Monument, 82 feet (24.99 meters) ...

The film careers of the actor Michael B. Jordan and director Ryan Coogler have been joined at the hip from the start. Jordan landed his breakthrough role in Coogler’s feature debut, “Fruitvale ...

For instance, 1728 is a key number in the sexagesimal system (base 60), which was central to ancient Babylonian and Sumerian mathematics, while 432 is often associated with cosmic cycles and harmonic ...

Dire wolf pups born using gene-edited ancient DNA CRISPR used to match dire wolf genes in grey wolf embryos Dallas firm Colossal leads species restoration breakthrough ...

The act of trying to suss out the possible meaning of dreams can be traced as far back as the ancient Sumerian civilisation, when many people used them as prophetic guides and to help them make ...