When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object's owner authorized ...

Deep beneath the ruins of Tiwanaku, Bolivia, lie tunnels lined with stalactites that challenge everything we think we know about human history. Some researchers claim these formations are 12,000 years ...

Climate change is significantly affecting ancient cities in southern Iraq, wiping away thousands of years of history.

Long before electricity, the people of ancient Persia engineered towering windcatchers, structures that funneled desert air ...

Dry weather is increasing salinity in soil and damaging ruins of cities such as Ur, birthplace of Biblical patriarch Abraham, ...

Climate change and rising salinity threaten Iraq's ancient cities like Ur and Babylon, imperiling thousands of years of ...

Iraqi officials are sounding the alarm to save monuments of the cradle of civilization, with thousands of years of history at ...

Iraqi officials are sounding the alarm to save monuments of the cradle of civilization, with thousands of years of history at ...

A study reveals that Sumer, the cradle of civilization, rose because of natural tidal irrigation that shaped the world’s ...

The world’s first urban civilization may have owed its rise not only to rivers but also to the tides. A new study led by Liviu Giosan and published in PLOS One suggests that Sumer, the cradle of ...

New research reveals Sumer’s cities may have risen with the tides, rewriting the origin story of the world’s first ...