Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

ProtoSnap uses computer vision to scan the pixels in a picture of a cuneiform table and compares them to a series of ...

They put the behemoths in the hold along with the rhinos, the hippos and the elephants. It was a sensible decision to use ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we revisit the immortal world of poetry in ancient Greece—from Homer’s epic poems, the earliest surviving works of ancient Greek ...

The podcast dives into some of history’s most enduring mysteries—Atlantis, the Great Flood, and ancient technologies ... compare myths like Noah’s Ark, Gilgamesh, and global flood legends ...

Last week, aiming to widen my literary horizon, I jotted down an internet search term suggested by a friend: “The Epic Of Gilgamesh,” an ancient poem from as early as 2100 BC that has become popular ...

The tomb was found within an ancient Egyptian necropolis in Abydos. The burial is located about 23 feet (7 meters) underground and contains a limestone burial chamber covered with mudbrick vaults ...

The snake in the Epic of Gilgamesh is not necessarily “good” or “bad”. Instead, the snake in this ancient Mesopotamian story seems to remind us that we all will die someday, no matter how hard we try ...