The writer and scholar Robert Macfarlane has spent much of his life climbing up mountains and fishing on rivers, and his ...

A.I. is allowing archeologists to perform studies that would have been impossible with other, conventional research ...

The head, or "keeper," of the Department of Oriental Antiquities was a learned Egyptologist, Samuel Birch, who had no direct expertise in Mesopotamian studies and left the supervision of the ...

Mespots was the familiar soldiers' shorthand for Mesopotamia. This ancient land, cradled between the legendary Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was a significant theatre of operations for British ...

We learn that the Mesopotamian civilisations kept data on celestial movements for more than 600 years. All this careful observation and information gathering was there to help the astrologers advise ...

From Mesopotamia to China and ancient Greece, the dragon has slithered alongside humanity, its lore ever-evolving, though many of the tropes are familiar even today: It crouches in caves on piles ...

As Iraq fitfully rebuilds, a groundbreaking exhibition is showcasing that nation’s rich roots in Mesopotamia, the region that gave birth to the world’s first urban civilization some 5,000 ...

Tom is a writer in London with a Master's degree in Journalism whose editorial work covers anything from health and the environment to technology and archaeology. Laura is an editor and staff ...

The sphere also displays symbols that the team compared to ancient scripts, including runes, Ogham and Mesopotamian writing systems. Using AI to assist in deciphering the design, the team ...