New climate maps show wild wheat and barley grew in much smaller areas than thought, narrowing early farming origins.
Deep in the deserts of Iraq, the lost city of Charax Spasinou has finally been found. It seems it had been hiding under the Earth for more than a mill.
Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...
To the Inca people of what’s now South America, the total lunar eclipse indicated that a jaguar had gobbled up the moon. They ...
One of the last cities ever founded by Alexander the Great, later dubbed Charax Spasinou, has finally been rediscovered.
In the medieval period, when Arabic chroniclers recorded eclipses, they usually noted concurrent deaths of rulers. And in Europe, a solar eclipse in 1133 was so closely associated with the 1135 death ...
The publication of “Chroma” represents an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with ...
Kolkata: An exhibition marking Indian Museum's 212th Foundation Day, titled ‘Beyond the Land: Markers of India's Riverine and ...
Recall the image etched in memory: a bulldozer driven by fighters of the self-proclaimed Islamic State smashing through the earthen berm on the Iraq-Syria ...
Alexandria on the Tigris was Alexander the Great’s lost trade capital linking India, Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean.
NIPPUR MAP TABLET. DATE: ca. 1500 B.C. MATERIAL: Clay. DIMENSIONS: 5 inches by 4.3 inches. FOUND: Nippur, Iraq. For the busy farmers of the Babylonian sacred city of Nippur, ready access to water was ...
On a bright morning in Hawaii Kai, you pull into a gas station. The Koolau cliffs glow. Tradewinds stir the palms. You slide ...
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