As temperatures continue to rise worldwide, developers are looking to ancient methods that were used to keep homes cool ...

Mesopotamia—“the land between two rivers ... including digging a moat and building new city walls. Beautification projects were on the agenda as well. The grand Processional Way was ...

we were able to miraculously unearth extensive mudbrick walls belonging to the Ningirsu temple. Dedicated to the storm god, this was one of the most important sacred places of Mesopotamia and ...

According to the Bible, David united the 12 tribes of ancient Israel into a great, unified kingdom stretching from Egypt to Mesopotamia ... And we found walls that were very thick, more than ...

In my research focused on early farmers of Europe, I have often wondered about a curious pattern through time: Farmers lived ...

It is known that he tore down the walls of Isin to expand it ... emerging victorious and thus unifying southern Mesopotamia for a time. The last representative of the dynasty, Ea-gamil, had to flee ...

This technological innovation, which emerged in Mesopotamia during the third millennium B.C ... analysis revealed that the sculpture has surprisingly thick metal walls in the front, measuring between ...

Scale ancient slopes that lead up to the impenetrable walls of Van Citadel ... Göbeklitepe flourished as a sacred site in northern Mesopotamia. Explore the still-standing ritual architecture ...

How hard or easy was it to find the words of ingredients in Akkadian—one of the earliest languages spoken in Mesopotamia ... is adhered to the oven's inner walls. The result is lahmo doe ...

Is the order of the modern alphabet connected to how our shared ancestors counted the phases of the moon and its effect on ...

A collection of ancient Hebrew and Greek texts has, over the course of millennia, shaped human history around the planet. Reports of its waning relevance have been greatly exaggerated. Review by ...

Virtuoso novelist Elif Shafak has received praise for her new novel. (Image / Supplied) British Turkish novelist Elif Shafak is justifiably one of the most beloved writers in the world. This is ...