Archaeologists have uncovered 3,500-year-old cuneiform tablets and seal impressions belonging to an unknown Hittite prince in Turkey.

For 5,000 years, there has been dancing, processions, rituals and feasts. What have we celebrated, from Africa to Asia, ...

Fifty-two percent of Americans hadn't read a book in a year -- a stat perhaps pointing toward a scary future in a post-literate society.

Translating cuneiform as a historical source is still nowhere near an exact science, and what we find amongst so many specialists is a reliance on interpretations of the latest Akkadian versions of ...

An archaeologist has admitted that around 1,400 cuneiform tablets might have been stolen from Irisagrig, a 4,000-year-old lost Sumerian city in modern day Iraq. While the robbers obviously know the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered rare artifacts from the Paleolithic era at Ulukoy Cave in Türkiye’s southeastern Mardin province, revealing the earliest known evidence of human activity in northern ...

When was the wheel invented? Who was the inventor of the wheel? Mesopotamian cultures are believed to have been the original inventors of wheels, though that premise is based solely on existing ...