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 ...

In her feisty, graceful “Glyph,” Ali Smith mulls writing and language among other themes: it’s her best work since the lauded ...

Iraqi artist's multitudinous clay explorations are powered by ancient myths, Arabian pop art, anonymous bloggers.

Long before modern skyscrapers and crowded highways existed, the world’s earliest cities began forming around rivers, trade routes, and fertile farmland. These settlements changed human history by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

A gothic horror tale, a creepy science-fiction romp, a sweeping romance, an intergenerational saga, a book about birds — here ...

Israel, a tool of Western imperialism’ That’s the charge. What, then, are Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia? Weird? Even a history buff, let alone a professional historian, might be taken aback at […] ...

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