The Musée du Louvre aims to bring these treasures closer to the public with a new department of Byzantine and Eastern ...

Did you know Damascus, Syria, has been home to people for about 3000 B.C.E.? Today, it has a population of around 2.6 million ...

Years ago Domokos developed a mathematical tool for describing tessellations based on their average properties rather than ...

A new study by Dr. Linda Evans and her colleagues from Macquarie University, Australia, published in the Journal of Egyptian ...

Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking prehistoric imagery to the inception of written communication. Researchers from ...

Israeli archeologists use models based on their find to spin flax into yarn, indicating these pebbles were used as a version ...

A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.

Growing North East business advisors RMT have snapped up a specialist restructuring practice in an undisclosed deal.

There is not a ton of evidence of what education looked like in ancient society, but we do know it existed - although not for ...

Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman has been posthumously awarded the rank of general.

A British-Iraqi archaeological team discovered the seventh-century Battle of al-Qadisiyah site using declassified 1970s U.S. spy satellite images. This battle marked a turning point in Islamic ...

Art galleries, which tend to present themselves as exclusive ... Ghanta Ghar (a clock tower built by Maharaja Sardar Singh), ...