Recently, historian Dr. Esmé James shared what's essentially a 4,000-year-old text message from a teenager to his mother.

Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of ...

A history of the peasant way of life, a book from one of Italy’s foremost feminists, a study of ancient wisdom of Mesopotamia ...

Hammurabi’s laws focused on the relations between the palatial sector and the family ... in Early Mesopotamia,” in Hudson, Michael and Levine, Baruch (eds.), Privatization in the Ancient ...

War can be understood as a modern, secular form of human sacrifice and a manifestation of sacrificial logic, particularly when viewed through the lens of ritual, symbolism and communal narratives.

The concept of credit can be said to date back thousands of years ago to ancient Mesopotamia ... credit card is the best option for every family, every purchase or every budget.

The Smithsonian reports that two million acres of the United States are devoted to cemeteries. California is projected to be the first state to run out of burial room. The Funeral Consumers Alliance ...

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern Mesopotamia, shedding new light on early farming practices. The research ...

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass ...

Jaafar Jotheri, lead author of the study, posted on X that all the canals were connected to the ancient Euphrates and ... in the Euphrates floodplain and in Mesopotamia more broadly.” ...