Berossus, a Babylonian priest writing during the Hellenistic period, preserved one of the most famous accounts of ...

The earliest jewelry of which we have any record belonged to the Sumerian queen Puabi. Pu (as we may call her) was buried in ...

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Narrator: Hello, future people of the UK. Would you like to visit me at the dawn of civilisation in ancient Sumer? Well, to do that, you’ve got to travel back in time. Back before the Vikings, before ...

One group of historians offers a sanitised version of the Mughal Empire. Another gravitates towards vile condemnation. The ...

This is the second part of an ongoing series chronicling oligarchy and its effects on North American society. There were a number of famous muckrakers. One of the most famous was Ida Tarbell, a ...

When he was asked whether he also wanted to see the tomb of the Ptolemies, Octavian replied: ‘I came to see a king, not ...

What should we call the words that this ultramodern technology produces? For clues, a professor looks to some of the world’s ...

Hundreds of stone jars, some weighing several tons, are scattered across the remote uplands of northern Laos. Despite being ...

According to the Book of Revelation, Armageddon is preceded by the Euphrates drying up. But back then, it would have felt a ...

When you persuade someone in your writing, your aim is to get them to agree with your point of view. Watch this video where teacher Mr Smith explores persuasive writing and gives you some examples of ...