Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...

For the first time, researchers were able to see inside the mummies in the Chicago Field Museum's collections. Their findings ...

Thousand-year-old seeds, and traces hidden in the soil for more than 5,000 years, have a lot to tell us. They provide clues ...

A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.

The establishment of the United States marked the reemergence of the large-scale republican state. In 1787, after the ...

The Sumerian creation myth presents symbolic layers and interpretations that go beyond the literal narrative, involving ...

Tugunbulak could have housed as many as 5,000 residents with the only source of food being pastured animals or what could be ...

Symbols found on 6,000-year-old clay cylinders used by ancient accountants may have paved way to earliest form of writing a ...

The history of human writing is being rewritten after archaeologists found the origins of words engraved on 6,000-year-old ...

Get your Indiana Jones-style fedora ready for a modern-day armchair expedition of places rediscovered after centuries—and ...

Pottery has long been used to date archaeological sites but previously held ideas about styles associated with the iron age ...

Natah, a 4,400-year-old Bronze Age town in Saudi Arabia, revealing insights into early urban life. The settlement, wi ...