The oldest known lock and key system dates back to around 4000 BCE in Mesopotamia. Crafted from wood and surprisingly ...

Bulgarian construction workers unearthed the world's oldest gold treasure in 1972, dating back to 4600 BC. The Varna Necropolis revealed over 13 pounds of meticulously crafted gold artifacts, ...

Damascus International Book Fair this year offers more than books, it tells the story of Syria’s enduring intellectual legacy. From ...

Among the discoveries, the most significant is the previously unknown sacred lake within the Montu Temple enclosure, located ...

But these tablets weren’t strictly business—they also contained literature that lives on today, including the The Epic of ...

Ziggurats were mudbrick temples designed to bridge heaven and earth, anchoring religion, power, and architecture in the ancient Near East for thousands of years.

The U.K. is home to some incredibly old roadways — and a number of them can still be traversed today.

One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This system is known as a majuscule script, originating from stone inscriptions, ...

In “The Oak and the Larch,” Sophie Pinkham examines a vast history and culture through the branches of its ancient trees.

High on a windswept Nevada mountainside in the 1960s, a young researcher set out to read the history of climate written in ...

An ancient inscription found in Sinai shows how Egypt claimed power beyond the Nile more than 5,000 years ago.

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