WASHINGTON _ Despite recent efforts to remove or rename Confederate memorials, there are still more than 2,000 symbols in places across the country, according to a report released Thursday.

Baklava is quite the ubiquitous pastry -- found in nearly every bakery you step foot into. This pastry is timeless for a ...

Mysterious Sphere Etched With Ancient Symbols Found in Colombia, Sparks UFO Rumors People in Colombia were awestruck when ...

Pazuzu was one of many ancient Mesopotamian supernatural beings that blurred the line between god and monster. Historian Dr ...

It uses various icons and symbols to represent various places. Every symbol and icon used on Google Maps and what they mean is here. Thanks to its accurate directions and real-time traffic updates ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy.

Ancient Mesopotamia has languished in obscurity, at least compared with the better-known Greek, Roman and Egyptian civilisations. So… Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox!

The symbols did not resemble Mesopotamian cuneiform or Egyptian hieroglyphs, the main writing systems used in the Near East during the Early Bronze Age. Schwartz did, however, note that several of ...

This dispute is just one of many such little-known events; for example, another debate has been raging for centuries over who invented the symbol for zero, 0. In The Language of Mathematics ...

One of the most famous and easy-to-remember symbols is undoubtedly the ‘OM’, or sometimes written as ‘AUM’. OM is said to be the sound that emanated when the Universe took its first breath ...