The world’s first known lock-and-key system, dating back to 4000 BCE in Mesopotamia, shows how ancient people protected their ...

Traditional economic theory celebrates banks as intermediaries that mobilise savings and convert them into productive investments. Joseph Schumpeter, the great economist of innovation, described banks ...

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

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

Because of shifting storms and sweltering summers, Iran’s capital faces a future “Day Zero” when the taps run dry.

The Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) hosted today (Tuesday) the second day of the Bridge 2025 Summit, the world’s ...

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

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

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

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 Zayed National Museum, designed by Norman Foster, and the Natural History Museum, are both located on the emirate's ...