Nine-month-old Euphrates is an American Molossus from the first litter of selective breeding to be the closest genetic ...

We generally associate the origins of mathematical thinking with the emergence of writing, about five to six thousand years ago. However, a new study challenges this assumption looking at floral ...

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 ...

A ziggurat (also spelled ziqqurat) was a raised platform with four sloping sides that looked like a tiered pyramid. Ziggurats were common in ancient Mesopotamia (roughly modern Iraq) from around 4,000 ...

Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides receives funding from the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Michael B. Charles does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and complex links with neighbors. A room in Sennacherib’s palace in Nineveh with ...

In a study published in the journal Iraq, Dr. Troels Arbøll analyzed medical prescriptions from ancient Mesopotamia to understand and re-evaluate the role sanctuaries played in the healing process.

Chaya Kasif does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

On average, the typical American contracts two to three colds per year between September and May, at an estimated cost of around $40 billion to the economy. Effective forms of treating or preventing ...

This redefines “high” society in ancient Egypt. Yale University researchers have found trace amounts of opium jars in an ancient Egyptian vessel, proving that opium use was widespread in the land of ...

The vast majority of our planet’s oceans remain entirely unexplored, meaning they’re full of tantalizing treasures hidden from sight. In a particularly cool example, French marine archaeologists ...