Türkiye’s ancient sites are not just relics of the past; they are a living bridge connecting humanity to its earliest ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani tells Newsweek his vision of making his country a global trade, investment and ...

Tell el-Amarna is the Arabic name of the place where, in 1430 BCE, Pharaoh Akhenaten built a city that was to become the ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the ...

When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object’s owner authorized the written document. In this respect, a cylinder seal’s impression is the ...

Imagine stumbling upon a piece of genuine history while doing something totally mundane, like cleaning out your garage or ...

Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited for many firsts in human history, including writing, urbanism and the state. Among these ...

Prehistoric trees like Ginkgo and monkey-puzzles still have close relatives that go back at least to the time of the ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

A team of archaeologists in the Kurdistan region of Iraq announced the discovery of a massive archaeological building dating ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A high, clear late summer day found me walking through groves of wild pistachio and pomegranate trees in ...