The Sumerians are often credited with founding the world’s first civilization—but where did they come from? Their language, culture, and innovations shaped Mesopotamia, yet their origins remain ...

Think about walking through ruins that have witnessed empires rise and fall, where kings once ruled and civilizations flourished thousands of years before modern history was even recorded. The layers ...

In this two-part article, the author presents an overview of what various ancient textual artifacts “remember” about the earliest loan closings ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and experts from leading universities and research institutions across China to ...

More than 4,500 years ago, in one of humanity’s earliest civilizations, gender-diverse individuals held respected and ...

One of the greatest Ancient Egyptian finds is the discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, which was left untouched ...

Explore whether a “gambling gene” exists and how genetics, technology, and culture intertwine to shape humanity’s growing ...

As early as 4,500 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, for instance, gender-diverse people held important roles in society with ...

Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...

During excavations at the Hilla archaeological site in southern Bahrain, archaeologists uncovered a roughly 3,300-year-old ...

I ndeed, much of what humanity categorizes as “recorded history” spans little more than the last five thousand years. In the ...

Today, trans people face politicization of their lives and vilification from politicians, media and parts of broader society.