In the early 20th century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel and ...

In the early 20th century, architects and artists like Hugh Ferriss drew on the myths and monuments of ancient Babylon to ...

Sumeria stands as one of the most significant and foundational civilizations in human history. Located in the fertile region of Mesopotamia, this ancient civilization is widely regarded as the ...

From Mozart and Dostoevsky to Jackson Pollock — two books reveal the fundamental and sometimes surprising intertwining of mathematics and creativity ...

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

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Solstice arrives on Jun 20, 2025, at 10:42 p.m. An astrologer sheds light on the areas of our lives primed to flourish under ...

In fact, like many words and phrases in the English language, a.m. is short for a Latin phrase, “ante meridiem” (or “before ...

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Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

The inscription measures roughly four by five feet. Within its chiseled border lie 255 runic symbols — characters from ...

Popularized by the movie Indiana Jones, Rome's ancient catacombs are tinged with mystery. Catacombs such as these were carved over hundreds of years beginning in the second century A.D. from soft ...