Best-selling author Joshua Hammer joins John Williams to discuss his new book, “The Mesopotamian Riddle.” Joshua talks about ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered by archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city Girsu or the present-day site Tello in ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

Despite more than  200 years of archaeological discoveries that disprove this Creation Myth as just that - a myth, a ...

Going big and going early leads to an uptick in public interest and in those necessary donations. Unfortunately, it also ...

A group of archaeologists has successfully deciphered a4,000-year-old collection of cuneiform tablets that reveal ominous ...

A fierce rivalry between four scholars ignited a race to crack the world’s oldest writing, unlocking the secrets of Mesopotamia after millennia of silence.

I grew up in an American apartheid,” he said. “Every aspect of my life was dictated by race.” He not only lived through but participated in the civil rights movement. The strange part, really, is that ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

All societies have had ways of understanding nature based on their experiences of it. For example, farmers need to understand the seasons and weather to know when to plant and harvest their crops.

One of the facts of life that we all have to face is that the Brumbies are better than the Waratahs. Usually when ...