The latest findings cast light on the history of a major civilization that is considered to be one of the world's first ...

For as long as people have been building civilizations, they’ve been looking for new methods to entertain themselves. One of ...

A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest stringed instrument ever found.

Controversy over whether it was disrupted by an Aryan invasion may now be discredited, but the debate over Indus ancestry and ...

Depending on what kind of beer you have in your fridge, you might not even notice when it passes its expiration date. But ...

The Kish tablet is “only” 5,500 years old, whereas the oldest cave painting that features three humans and a pig dates back ...

Researchers found that ancient Mesopotamians associated body parts with emotions, just as we do—but they discovered some ...

As the collections of Sir Moses Montefiore and David Solomon Sassoon go under the hammer today, what's the future for rare ...

Excavations at the site have given insights into the Ubaid culture, which spread in its heyday from Mesopotamia to Anatolia ...

A newfound clay head from the sixth millennium B.C. is the first of its kind ever found in Kuwait, but similar finds have been unearthed from ancient Mesopotamia.

A team of Kuwaiti and Polish archaeologists have discovered a mysterious 7500-year-old figurine with reptilian features.

For thousands of years, artisans have expressed their creativity through glass. While glass can be found in nature, ...