Hello everyone! Last time, under the broad theme of the "birth of civilization," we looked at the beginnings of agriculture ...

Gathering around a large jar and drinking beer through long straws.While this way of drinking might look a bit strange to us ...

A machine shop rebuilds cylinder heads from a 1968 Firebird 350 Pontiac engine, installing hardened valve guides, exhaust seats, and modern positive valve stem seals to replace the original 1960s-era ...

ToRS Ancient Studies Lecture Series: A talk with with Prof Jana Mynářová, Charles University Prague This talk examines small carved cylinders, known as cylinder seals, from the southern Levant. When ...

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When it comes to engines, the term "block" can mean a few things. There's big block versus small block and short block vs long block, but at the heart of the matter is the engine itself. The ...

Discover the complex history behind the Cyrus Cylinder, the famous 2,500-year-old clay inscription commissioned after Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon in 539 BCE. Often celebrated as the world’s ...

Babylonian seal made of chalcedony, circa 14th century B.C.E., inscribed with a hymn to the goddess Inanna. The seal was owned by a man named Tunamisah, son of Pari. Credit: Gift of The Right Reverend ...

Across the ancient southern Levant, some cylinder seals carried inscriptions that looked like cuneiform but could not be fully read as proper text. These “fake cuneiform seals” were not simple ...

“Neil the seal” is a five-year-old, one-ton, pure chaos southern elephant seal. Rampaging around towns on the Tasmanian coast, Neil has stolen hearts even as he has been spotted overturning road posts ...

On a narrow island in eastern Canada battered by freezing winds, hundreds of gray seal pups lie dead every breeding season, bearing massive, oddly shaped wounds. The injuries start at their mouth and ...

Iraq became the 48th and final team to secure a spot at the 2026 World Cup with a 2-1 win over Bolivia in an intercontinental playoff Tuesday, overcoming last-minute logistical problems and ending a ...