Cosmos Theatre Arts presents Inanna’s Descent into the Underworld, running Wednesday through Saturday, Oct. 30 through Nov. 1 ...

A study reveals that Sumer, the cradle of civilization, rose because of natural tidal irrigation that shaped the world’s ...

Research shows that ancient tides shaped the rise of Sumer, the world’s first civilization. Shifting deltas and tidal rhythms ...

The ghost stories of the ancient world reveal much about humanity’s early attempts to understand death and the afterlife. Whether it was a story to serve a moral lesson, a religious reminder, or ...

Holiday traditions feel timeless, like they’ve always existed in their current form. Families gather around Christmas trees.

A recent study is changing the understanding of how urbanization developed in ancient Mesopotamia. According to the analysis, the emergence of the Sumerian civilization was not only the result of ...

Greece has captured one of the top honors in the world of archaeology, for the Best Archaeological Discovery of 2024.

As soon as Abraham Van Helsing understands the danger in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, he gathers together his allies to explain ...

In the beginning, there were only myths. For the Greeks, the island of Crete was a distant and strange land and yet the site of some their most important traditions: Zeus was taken there to save him ...

Salt has been with humankind almost since the beginning of time. Its usefulness as a seasoning and preservative extends to other historical applications, both therapeutic and ritual, so it is not surp ...

The New York City performance biennial returns next month with new commissions by artists including Ayoung kim, Pakui ...

I decided to write how the Greeks wrote, as if Yorubaland were the whole world,” the artist told Hyperallergic in an interview about her new book.