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 ...

Professor Kulakoglu explains that many of the words, although Assyrian in origin -- a Semitic language considered an ancestor ...

Ancient Chinese writing developed early in the second millennium ... which may have influenced Mesopotamian cuneiform. The proto-Sinaitic script was widely thought to be the oldest alphabet ...

Ancient instructions for making food often ... When four Babylonian clay tablets arrived at Yale University in the early ...

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan ...

The famous Parisian museum announced the Mona Lisa is moving into her own gallery. The change will actually help visitors experience the Louvre in a truly personal way—through the art of food. Here's ...