Many archaeologists believe the famed tower from the Book of Genesis may have had a real historical counterpart in ancient ...

A clay tablet older than Egyptian hieroglyphs holds 24 carved signs, and after 50 years, no one can read a single one.

In 1969, in a village in northwestern Bulgaria called Gradeshnitsa, an archaeologist named Bogdan Nikolov unearthed something ...

The annual Celebrating the Humanities gathering was more than just a way to recognize excellence across the division. This ...

Researchers analyzing ancient cuneiform tablets recently unveiled a 4,000-year-old beer receipt — offering a rare glimpse into Mesopotamian beer culture. The news was announced in a University of ...

Polis III Nona has assumed his duties as the new patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church. He was elected on April 12, replacing Cardinal Louis Sako, who retired in March.

A new study reveals ancient Sumerians credited gods (not humans) with inventing writing, challenging decades of scholarly ...

The Sumerians built the world’s earliest cities and invented writing—but we still don't know exactly who they were. Did they migrate from a distant land, or did they emerge right inside Mesopotamia?

In an article on the Fuente Magna Bowl, April Holloway highlighted the evidence of Sumerian writing in South America. The Fuente Magna Bowl and Pokotia monument indicate that Sumerians may have ...

In a recent article on Ancient Origins, Jason Jarrell and Sarah Farmer discussed the possibility that Zecharia Sitchin mistranslated several Sumerian Texts. According to Sitchin, there were a number ...

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