For hundreds of years experts have been trying to find answers as to how the great Minoan civilization of Crete came to an ...

Joshua Hammer’s “The Mesopotamian Riddle” chronicles the 19th-century contest between an archaeologist, a soldier and a clergyman to decipher an ancient text ...

During a partial lunar eclipse, Earth’s shadow appears to take a bite of the moon. The full moon is covered during a total ...

The Madison area, southern and central Wisconsin should have good viewing as skies are forecast to be partly cloudy overnight ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with ...

Archaeologists have discovered a massive and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in southern Mesopotamia, ...

He pleases Shamash and will enrich his life. 2 Buccellati rightly states that “We are the heirs of Mesopotamian perception ...

New research in Sumerian Eridu, the oldest known city, has mapped thousands of canals and farms, shedding light on the ...

The Sumerians are widely credited with the invention of writing in Mesopotamia. They developed a system of cuneiform script that allowed them to record information and communicate. Sumerian ...

Scientists have long known that beer played an important role in ancient Mesopotamia, widely known as the cradle of human civilization, but they struggled to find concrete evidence of the beverage — ...