As they prepare to support Sleep Theory across the UK and Europe, The Pretty Wild's Jules Wylde takes us through their ...

The Dispilio Tablet, a wooden artifact engraved with linear symbols and dated to around 5260 BC, was discovered in a ...

Discover which king established the first professional standing army. Learn how Sargon of Akkad revolutionized warfare and ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought ancient languages to life, such as Ancient Greek and Old English, by demonstrating ...

It is believed the Sumerians used the very first drinking straws for drinking beer. Archeologists speculate they used the ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

Deep in Iraq's southern desert, bulldozers and earthmovers spread layers of moist clay over sand dunes as part of a broader ...

Mesopotamia, the world's oldest civilisation, arose in ancient Iraq, pioneering writing, law, and science. Explore its ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

A clay tablet with proto-cuneiform writing. Image credits: Jim Kuhn/Wikimedia Commons. Imagine a world without written records — no books, no laws, no way to document discoveries or communicate ideas ...

Mesopotamia was a region of West Asia where present-day Iraq is located. The Sumerians were among the earliest civilizations to inhabit the region and they’re credited with some of the most ...

The Emerald Tablets are one of the greatest enigmas of archaeology. They can be considered an obscure side of Egyptian mythology, characterized by events where myth seems to meet history. Scholars ...