Across continents and centuries, wine has held a special place in the human story -- a symbol of celebration, connection, and culture. From the ancient vineyards of Mesopotamia and the sun-kissed ...

Beneath the rugged mountains of southeastern Iran, archaeologists are carefully unearthing traces of a Bronze Age society that could upend the accepted narrative of where writing and urban life began.

Introduction Europeans did not think we would find out about our black human species that inhabited Europe before the arrival of the Caucasians from the Caucasus Mountains in Central Asia .

Palm orchards line the Halil Rud River today, but 5,000 years ago this landscape may have supported one of the earliest known cities with a monumental architectural vocabulary.

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

How humans moved large rocks to construct monuments has fueled many theories, even though it is a matter of physics and coordinated efforts by a large workforce. A more interesting concept to explore ...

The kingdom of Israel was overthrown in ca. 722 BCE by the Neo-Assyrian empire, centred in what is now Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia), and Israel” ceased to be a geographic entity of the ancient Middle ...

WASHINGTON -- Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

Scientists have discovered an ancient landscape beneath a mile of ice in Antarctica, a place that was likely once home to rivers and forests. This area, which has remained untouched for over 34 ...

Female rulers in ancient Mesopotamia were rare. But those who did rule made their mark on history. In the Neo-Assyrian regime of the ninth century B.C., one woman commanded an entire empire ...