The Royal Game of Ur is the oldest known board game with surviving boards and preserved rules. Originating in ancient Mesopotamia, it spread widely across the Near East and Mediterranean.

Humans have used head supports for sleep for hundreds of thousands of years. Archaeological evidence traces pillows from grass bedding and ash layers to stone headrests in Mesopotamia and Egypt, and ...

Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...

To the Inca people of what’s now South America, the total lunar eclipse indicated that a jaguar had gobbled up the moon. They ...

On a bright morning in Hawaii Kai, you pull into a gas station. The Koolau cliffs glow. Trade­winds stir the palms. You slide ...

Forty-seven people detained in operations carried out on Feb 3 in 22 cities targeting the Socialist Party of the Oppressed ...

A University of Houston psychology professor is challenging the notion that dyslexia, or specific reading disorder, stems ...

Many of us learned our alphabet in elementary school, if not before. That same alphabet can apply to mediations. As a ...

Debris from a fire that destroyed a two story home along Route 7 Monday was removed by Amish crews Tuesday, clearing the site ...

Göbeklitepe-style T-pillars uncovered in Adıyaman show early Neolithic monument building spread across Upper Mesopotamia, not ...

Ziggurats were mudbrick temples designed to bridge heaven and earth, anchoring religion, power, and architecture in the ancient Near East for thousands of years.

Research shows the Ishtar Temple at Assur was built on imported sand, revealing early ritual practices and the timeline of ...