Long before ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia, early humans were fermenting fruits and grains to create the world’s first ...

A new book argues that societies built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

Ancient Sudan was connected, through trade and military activity, with Egypt, the Mediterranean world and Mesopotamia, and ...

Woohoo in Dubai is betting on artificial intelligence technology to change the city’s culinary scene, with plans to license ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

Hotter temperatures and a series of droughts in what is now Pakistan and India fragmented one of the world’s major early civilisations, providing a "warning shot" for today ...

The Assyrian business community also had the first businesswomen and female investors. Generous tax breaks were given to ...

New research reveals why not just agriculture but also cereal grains were crucial to the formation of humanity’s first states ...

Two hundred thousand Irishmen - give or take the dead, the maimed, the mad, the misremembered - who put on British khaki and ...

Throughout history, housing materials have served not just as shelter but as cultural signatures. A city’s skyline often reveals the story of its ...