The enigma of Sumerian origins remains one of the most compelling debates in modern archaeology and linguistics. While the Sumerians are credited with establishing the world’s first high civilization ...

The Sumerian civilization was born around 3500 BCE in the fertile plains between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia. What makes the Sumerian civilization so special is that it was ...

“Hey, Rob, we needed you last night!” I heard that this morning from a classmate, during the casual chit-chat phase of class when everyone is settling in and getting their notebooks out. She was ...

New research shows Stone Age humans created structured signs and symbol systems 40,000 years ago, long before formal writing ...

Scholars used China’s “oracle bones” to help decipher the collapse of the Shang dynasty. Combined with paleoclimate reconstructions, the team found an intense increase in typhoon activity helped shift ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scholars used China’s “oracle bones” to help decipher the collapse of the Shang dynasty. Combined with paleoclimate ...

A mysterious 5,000-year-old decision led directly to how we still count time today. In October 1793, the newly established French Republic embarked on an ill-fated experiment. It decided to change ...

One of the world’s oldest surviving collections of writing, scratched into ‘oracle bones’ by Shang dynasty chroniclers more than three millennia ago, is finally giving up its secrets. Using a powerful ...

The story of Gilgamesh has survived 4,000 years. Now it arrives on a California opera stage, partly sung in the language it was first written in.

The Fertile Crescent, often called the 'cradle of civilisation', is found in the Middle East. In this article, we will learn ...