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 ...

In September 2024, John Marshall, Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India, told the world about Harappan ...

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

The Bible is often seen as a singular religious cornerstone, but its narratives echo older traditions from Egypt, Mesopotamia ...

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

Although we think of our emotions as being controlled by our brains, that does not mean they’re limited to our heads alone.

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.

3,000-year-old clay tablets show that some associations between emotion and parts of the body have remained the same for millennia.

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