Explore the history of ancient board games, from Senet to Tâb, and discover how they shaped culture, strategy, and leisure.

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

Many of our practices and behaviours go back four thousand years. For example, the Danish archaeologists found evidence that Failakawis dove for pearls 4000 years ago, but the elementary history books ...

Monkeys: In Hindu mythology, monkeys are sacred due to their association with Hanuman, the monkey god who embodies strength, loyalty, and courage. Hanuman's devotion to Rama in the Ramayana has made ...

Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

Ancient historians recorded legends about the invention of the first coins, and archaeologists have found some surprising ...

Wedged between the Middle East, south Asia and central Asia, Afghanistan occupies a pivotal place in world geography and world history. Its location has helped draw a diversity of cultures, religions ...

A symbolic tradition across the world, colorful Easter eggs are synonymous with the holiday. The Easter egg museum in ...

Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention of writing. That's according to a new study that challenges ...

Other scholars have offered alternate ideas. Author Pete Van Dyke suggests Eden exists in a spiritual “cosmic east,” beyond our physical world. Joel Kramer points to Saudi Arabia’s gold-rich land as ...

The Persians used the ancient weapon of religious superstition to conquer ... Similarly, the people of Hatra in Mesopotamia, when battling against the Roman troops of Septimius Severus, used pots ...