Berossus, a Babylonian priest writing in Greek, preserved a version of the Sumerian King List that includes rulers said to have lived for thousands of years. But how reliable is this account? In this ...

Despite Black Sumerian women creating the first known beer recipe thousands of years ago, Black brewery owners make up less ...

Then there’s the story of what happened that comes from Candace Owens, a highly influential voice on the far right whose ...

More than 5,000 years ago, the world’s oldest known writing system emerged in what is now Iraq, establishing the country as the epicenter of recorded human history. […] ...

Wylie is 91, and The Picture Comes First her largest exhibition to date. It circles lightly through her career and is ...

Why Fly’ By Caroline Paul c. 2026, Bloomsbury $27.99/256 pages. Tray table folded up. Check. Your seat is in the upright position, the airflow above your head is just the way ...

"The Great Shadow," by Susan Wise Bauer, is a sweeping survey of humanity’s relationship to illness over the centuries.

8,000-year-old pottery shards reveal ancient Mesopotamians understood maths before numbers invented - Decoration of pottery and seals in Halafian culture reflects high level of mathematical awareness, ...

New discoveries of Stone Age symbols in Germany could push back the history of writing by over 30,000 years, potentially ...

Statistical analysis reveals ancient bone carvings hold complex information rivaling early Mesopotamian scripts.

“When the Supreme Court says that there is a constitutional right to armed self-defense in public, it openly embraces a culture that privileges white men’s ability to terrorize and kill those that ...