New discoveries of Stone Age symbols in Germany could push back the history of writing by over 30,000 years, potentially ...

I have often reflected on my journey to Armenia, trying to understand the historical path of an ancient nation across the centuries. My first encounter with Armenian culture came through a television ...

Scholars deciphered inscriptions on 4,000-year-old tablets more than 100 years after they were originally discovered. One ...

Ancient Mesopotamia produced some of the earliest written accounts of demons and supernatural beings. These creatures were not abstract myths but explanations for disease, storms, and sudden death.

The civilisation’s previously accepted timeline was around 2600 BC, but using radiocarbon dating on pottery fragments and animal remains they have found at the site, Archaeological Survey of India ...

Elam was an ancient civilization in what is now Iran, known through both its own records and Mesopotamian accounts. Using the Elamite Fortification Tablets from Persepolis, this food reconstruction ...

Historian John Stow claimed that Henry VIII had around 70,000 people executed (although this is believed to be an exaggerated ...

More than 5,000 years ago, the world’s oldest known writing system emerged in what is now Iraq, establishing the country as the epicenter of recorded human history. […] ...

Nur Sağlamer, a felt artist recognized by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism as a bearer of intangible cultural heritage under ...

The Indus Valley Civilisation probably didn’t disappear all at once. New research points to a long stretch of repeated ...

Among the most persistent claims is that extraterrestrials assisted in the construction of ancient civilizations.