Over 5,000 years ago, in the scorching heart of ancient Mesopotamia, the city of Uruk rose to become the largest and most advanced settlement in the world. Home to nearly 80,000 people, it boasted ...

Ziggurats were mudbrick temples designed to bridge heaven and earth, anchoring religion, power, and architecture in the ancient Near East for thousands of years.

The oldest known lock and key system dates back to around 4000 BCE in Mesopotamia. Crafted from wood and surprisingly sophisticated, this early mechanical device allowed ancient people to secure ...

Protecting youths online will be the defining internet policy battle of 2026. Last year, Australia began implementing the ...

The first lecture will be at 2.30pm at the Museu do Traje in São Bras de Alportel, the second lecture will be at 6pm at the Convento de São José in Lagoa.

Leonardo Da Vinci famously utilized left-handed mirror script for personal notes, effectively reversing his handwriting to keep private thoughts concealed.

A recent study has suggested that painted images found on ancient pottery may offer one of the earliest glimpses into how humans first began to think mathematically. The pottery, created up to 8,000 ...

Around 2112 B.C., the Sumerian king Ur-Namma (r. 2112–2095 B.C.) united the city-states of southern Mesopotamia into a short-lived kingdom known today as the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur III. More than ...

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

Indeed, much of what humanity categorizes as “recorded history” spans little more than the last five thousand years. In the 3rd millennium BCE, the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia had already been ...

Ca. 2300–2000 b.c. The head likely depicts a Mesopotamian ruler and is one of the earliest known life-size lost-wax metal sculptures to survive. It had been thought that the head was virtually solid, ...