Kings and Generals’ historical animated series returns with a deep dive into the origins of commerce in the ancient world.

The same force that paved the way for the Greek Golden Age sowed the seeds of its political collapse: individualism.

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Researchers have sequenced the genome of an ancient Egyptian who was buried in a pot nearly 5,000 years ago, about the time ...

From Plato to Dylan, Augustine Sedgewick outlines how fatherhood has constantly been redefined by political, economic and ...

Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country and alongside Mesopotamia was a part of the Fertile Crescent which is ...

In the early 20th century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel and ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest,” and I would add—by the need to engage in conflict. From the blood-soaked soil of ancient Sumer to ...

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

Figures are shown complete and not half submerged which is typical of Assyrian art. There is an inscription written in ...