A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

For example, an ancient granite mace head introduces ... Other chapters explore cuneiform script (the world’s first known writing), cities, leadership, education (including some of the earliest ...

Known as Hiix Witz, or ‘Jaguar Hill’ in ancient ... cuneiform to Egyptian hieroglyphics to Chinese oracle bones. In the second half of the course, we will explore Mesoamerican writing systems and ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

Carved in cuneiform script, the map places Babylon at the very ... This incredible artifact from ancient Iraq provides invaluable insight into the sophisticated knowledge and unique cosmology ...