On International Museum Day, HT visits city’s galleries that showcase lives from royal households to how the well-oiled ...

Street food goes as far back as ancient Mesopotamia. Four thousand years ago, city dwellers short on time, money, or cooking ...

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

The unique ancient Greek board game Zatrikion discovered at the Knossos Palace shows that the ancients had a penchant for ...

The history of the planet and the civilizations that have lived on it are among life’s greatest mysteries.People have roamed ...

A major study using data from more than a thousand archaeological sites examines the transition from primitive egalitarianism to the first class societies around the world.

The ubiquity of mathematics is therefore beyond question, and it is clear that virtually no task can be accomplished without ...

The fortress saw three periods, which included its construction by the Greeks ... Greeks controlled this part of the Arabian Gulf and the trade between India and Mesopotamia.” Today, several French ...

While it is difficult to identify the exact period when raised garden beds were first used, there is strong evidence that they have their roots as far back as Mesopotamia circa 3000 BC.

The Indus Valley Civilization (aka the Harappan Civilization) was one of the civilizations that emerged in the region known as Mesopotamia ... was only used in the construction of monuments ...

Discover how marriage has transformed from a strategic alliance in ancient times to an emotional choice today.