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 ...

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

The kind of generalist education modern universities have quietly abandoned, hidden inside eight serious books still sitting ...

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

From Enheduanna to Plato and Aristotle, ancient thinkers viewed writing as a deeply human act that expresses experience and ...

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